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In the Loop with SCS FacultyJeannette WingPresident’s Professor of Computer ScienceHead, Computer Science DepartmentComputational Thinking:“Deep technical challenges remain inthe field of computer science and weneed to do something to engage the nextgeneration of researchers. Promoting computationalthinking across all disciplinesand to younger students will convey thebreadth and depth of our field and showthem that there is more to computerscience than just programming.“As computer scientists, we think atmany layers of abstraction, using variousalgorithmic and assertional approaches toresearch problems. But if we look around,many abstract computer science conceptscan be found in our daily lives. For instance,when your daughter goes to school in themorning, she fills her backpack with thethings she’ll probably need that day.That’s prefetching and caching. Choosingwhich line to stand in at the supermarketcheckout is job scheduling. Computationalthinking can be used as a ‘bumper sticker’for the computer science community.“The response to my article on computationalthinking in Communications ofthe ACM has been fantastic so far. I’veheard positive comments fromhardcore academics to current industryleaders and from retiredIT professionals to high schoolAP teachers.”ResearchingTrustworthyComputing:“To build bettersystems, we have tolook at not only thelongstanding computerscience concernsof security andreliability, but also atvarious privacy issuesthat until recentlyhad been left topolicy makers andlawyers. Another major system concern isusability. The human user is often theweakest link—no matter how strong yournetwork security or how reliable your software,one successful social engineering scamcan wreak havoc on an entire system. Bytaking a holistic approach, we can createsystems that are more trustworthy.”The Administrative Angle:“I love to teach and engage withour students and I am truly lookingforward to co-teaching Modelsof Software Systems this fall.However, I also appreciate my roleas department head. It gives meunique opportunities to shareCarnegie Mellon’s successeswith a wide audience and tobuild awareness about theworld-class research thathappens here every day. Iam extremely proud of ourfaculty, staff and studentsand feel lucky that I getto represent them.”Daniel SiewiorekBuhl University Professor of Electrical andComputer Engineering and Computer ScienceDirector, Human-Computer InteractionInstitute (HCII)Humans, Computersand Engineers:“Engineers tend to be bottom upthinkers and computer scientists tendto be top down thinkers. Humancomputerinteraction integrates thesetwo complementary ‘tool sets’ andplaces the human user at the centerof the computing system.”Context Awareness:“We’re on the verge ofcontext-aware (CA) computing—creatingsystemsthat combine builtinsensors, artificialintelligence andmobile computingto proactively assist users. CA can help withinfrequent problem solving, like when yourcar’s dashboard check engine soon lightflashes. Instead of you having to searchthrough the entire maintenance manualfor an explanation (it’s usually caused byinferior gasoline), the car’s built-in softwarecould index the manual with the car’sGPS system, noting when and where youlast bought fuel, and then showyou only the appropriate sectionof the manual or suggesta remedy.CA applications can alsobe used to coach people ‘in thewild’ as opposed to only duringcontrolled training situations.We’re currently developinga wrist-wornunit for wheelchairusers to helpprevent repetitiveuse injuries likecarpal tunnel androtator cuff tears.”The Importance of Academics:“Now that many of the industrialin-house research labs have been phasedout, companies are looking to partner withinnovative universities to solve the hardquestions generated by real world problems.Theory is important, but so is taking realmeasurements with real systems, whichoften leads to new research questions. Anumber of very good Ph.D. thesis topicshave come out of summers I’ve spentconsulting with various companies.Teaching gives me the opportunity tohave an impact on the current curriculum,to write textbooks, to share new findings,to research cutting-edge applications. Andabout every 10 years, I get to sort of reinventmyself. With Moore’s Law, the majorparameters of computing are changing byup to a factor of 1,000 over a decade, soyou’d better be doing something differentbecause so much is possible now that wasn’tpossible before.Besides, interacting with students keepsyou young—they don’t know what can’tbe done.” > THE LINK
Student AwardsThroughout the 2005-06 academic year, many SCS students were honored for their accomplishments.< Carnegie Mellon Awards >Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate ResearchKanat Tangwongsan (CS’06, CS doctoral candidate)Active Data Structures and Applications to Dynamicand Kinetic AlgorithmsAndrew Carnegie Society ScholarsYanka Li (CS’06)Benjamin J. McCann (CS’06, TPR’06)David I. Murray (CS’06, A’06)Gregory W. Price (CS’06)Computer Science Department Ph.D. ScholarshipTom Murphy VIIVirginia VassilevskaThis alumnus-endowed scholarship is awarded to current Ph.D.students whose innovative research has the potential to change thefield in which they are studying.Alan J. Perlis SCS Student Teaching AwardLuis von Ahn (CS’03, ’05)< External Scholarships and Fellowships >ARCS Foundation Scholarship:Achievement Rewards for College ScientistsMichael Dinitz (CS doctoral candidate)Daniel Wendlandt (CS doctoral candidate)AT&T Laboratory FellowshipMoira Burke (HCI doctoral candidate)Boeing Leadership ScholarshipJeffrey Grafton (CS’08)Stephanie Rosenthal (CS’07)Daniel Vann (CS’07)Andrew Warshaver (CS’08)Clare Boothe Luce Graduate FellowshipMichelle Goodstein (CS doctoral candidate)DSO Postgraduate ScholarshipLeonghwee Teo (CS’99, HCI doctoral candidate)Fulbright ScholarFrancisco Calderon (RI master’s candidate)Rolf Allan Luders (RI master’s candidate)Google Anita Borg Memorial ScholarshipPreethi Bhat-Srinivas (CS’06)Ariadna Font-Llitjos (CS’01, LTI doctoral candidate)IBM Ph.D. FellowshipVincent Conitzer (CS’03, ’06)NASA Graduate FellowshipMary McGlohon (ML doctoral candidate)Nick Patronik (CS’04, RI doctoral candidate)National Defense Science and EngineeringGraduate FellowshipNick Armstrong-Crews (RI doctoral candidate)Andrew Ko (HCI doctoral candidate)Matthew Wachs (CS doctoral candidate)National Institutes of Health FellowshipAlik Widge (CS’03, RI doctoral candidate)National Science Foundation FellowshipLillian Chang (RI doctoral candidate)Michael Dinitz (CS doctoral candidate)James Hays (CS doctoral candidate)Laura Hiatt (CS doctoral candidate)Amy Hurst (HCI doctoral candidate)Daniel Lee (CS doctoral candidate)Mark Palatucci (RI doctoral candidate)Deborah Sigel (RI doctoral candidate)Andrew Stein (RI doctoral candidate)Ling Xu (CS’04, RI doctoral candidate)Siebel ScholarshipAnna Goldenberg (ML doctoral candidate)Dinesh Govindaraju (CS’04, ’06)Estefania Pickens (ETC’06)Alla Safonova (CS’04, CS doctoral candidate)Sebastian Scherer (CS’04, RI doctoral candidate)THE LINK < 7
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