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	Press Releases Public Relations Office, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891 scs@cs.cmu.edu . 412/268-3830 - 412/268-5016 (fax) PRESS RELEASES Quantum Computing Expert Peter Shor Receives Carnegie Mellon's 1998 Dickson Prize in Science 5 November 1999 Carnegie Mellon Software Program Reveals Unique Aspects Of Every Major League Baseball Team Since Game's Inception 20 October 1999 Distinguished Computer Scientist Randal E. Bryant Is Named Head of Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department 1 September 1999 Carnegie Mellon Professor Named Co-Chairman Of President's Information Technology Advisory Committee 18 August 1999 Carnegie Mellon's Center for Automated Learning and Discovery Receives $100,000 from Microsoft for Graduate Fellowships 17 August 1999 Enhanced Robot Performance, Safety and Repair to Be Addressed At International Conference on Robotics at Carnegie Mellon 16 August 1999 Carnegie Mellon Scientists Orchestrate an International Video Conference Demonstrating Spontaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation in Six Languages 22 July 1999 NASA Looks For New Ways to Harness Sun's Energy for Earth and Space 29 June 1999 DOE's Federal Energy Technology Center and DOD's Pentagon Renovation Office to Test BOA Automated Asbestos Removal Robot 21 June 1999 PIONEER Robot Is Dedicated At Chernobyl Sarcophagus 2 June 1999 Networking Pioneer James Morris Named New Dean of School of Computer Science 1 June 1999 Carnegie Mellon Will Host Public Meeting on Community Technology Problems and Solutions 3 May 1999 State of the Art in Robotics Worldwide Is Focus of International Meeting Sponsored by American Nuclear Society and Carnegie Mellon 16 April 1999 Computer Science Professor Tom Mitchell Named Carnegie Mellon's Fredkin Professor of AI and Learning 8 April 1999 New Haptic Interface for Computers Gives Users the Sense of Touch 5 February 1999 Carnegie Mellon Researchers Will Unveil Magnetic Levitation-Based Haptic Interface for Computers at ASME Symposium in Anaheim 18 November 1998 Carnegie Mellon Robot Prepares for Antarctica By Practicing Its Moves in a Local Freezer 7 October 1998 Carnegie Mellon Spins Off a Company and Names a President To Commercialize Cognitive Tutors for Education Market 6 October 1998 Carnegie Mellon Partners with Johns Hopkins and MIT In NSF Center to Foster Robotic and Computer-Aided Surgery 24 September 1998 Carnegie Mellon Study Reveals Negative Potential of Heavy Internet Use on Emotional Well Being 31 August 1998 Carnegie Mellon's Champion Robotic Soccer Team Leaves for Paris June 30 to Compete in RoboCup 98 29 June 1998 Carnegie Mellon Robotic Helicopter Will Help NASA Scientists To Explore a Remote Arctic Crater and Learn More About Mars 16 June 1998 Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop the Nation's First Robotic Tour Guide For the Dinosaur Hall at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History 22 May 1998 Symposium on AI and CS in the 21st Century To Mark the 60th Birthday of SCS' Dean Reddy 12 May 1998 Carnegie Mellon Receives $1.5 Million from Lockheed Martin to Develop Mobile, Wearable Computer Systems for Aircraft Maintenance and Repair 18 November 1997 Carnegie Mellon Names Veteran Mobile Robot Building to Direct the National Robotics Engineering Consortium 5 November 1997 The $100,000 Fredkin Prize for Computer Chess To Be Awarded To Deep Blue's Inventors at AAAI '97 25 July 1997 Carnegie Mellon Reseachers Have Automated Buses, Cars and a Minivan For an Automated Highway System Demonstration in San Diego 21 July 1997 Carnegie Mellon Summer Institute for AP Computer Science Teachers Will Focus on C++ Use and Teaching, and Developing Skills to Recruit and Retain Women in the Field 2 July 1997 Carnegie Mellon's Nomad Robot Begins 125-Mile Trek in Chilean Desert, Teleoperated for Part of its Trip by Visitors to U.S. Science Centers 18 June 1997 First Computer-Aided Surgical Navigation System for Hip Replacements to be Demonstrated in Operation at Pittsburgh's Shadyside Hospital 10 June 1997 Carnegie Group Endowed Professorship Awarded To Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist 2 June 1997 If Deep Blue Beats World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, Its Creators Will Be Eligible for Carnegie Mellon's $100,000 Fredkin Prize 9 May 1997 Director of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute Is Elected to the National Academy of Engineering 20 March 1997 Top Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist Will Demonstrate New, Interactive Synthetic Video Interview Technology at ACM 50th Anniversary Celebration 3 March 1997 Randal E. Bryant Awarded Carnegie Mellon's President's Professorship of Computer Science 7 February 1997 Carnegie Mellon and Digital Equipment Corp. Collaborate on $7.5 Million Project to Develop A New Infrastructure for High-Performance Desktop Computing and Video Communication 3 February 1997 Carnegie Mellon and Digital Equipment Corp. Collaborate on $7.5 Million Project to Develop A New Infrastructure for High-Performance Desktop Computing and Video Communication 3 February 1997 Tool Automatically Finds Flaws In the User Interface of a Computer System 6 December 1998 Carnegie Mellon's Wactlar Awarded an Endowed Chair, The Alumni Research Professorship of Computer Science 28 June 1996 Carnegie Mellon Researchers Receive $2.2 Million To Develop Architecture for a Table-Top-Sized Robotic Factory 19 January 1996 Carnegie Mellon to Host Conference on Making Academia A Supportive Environment for Women in Engineering and Science 5 October 1995 Carnegie Mellon Breaks Ground for Robotics Institute's NASA Robotics Engineering Consortium Building 23 September 1995 Pittsburgh Company Established Using Lycos Internet Catalog Technology 20 June 1995 Mary Shaw, Professor and Software Engineering Expert, Is Awarded The Perlis Chair in Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science 25 May 1995 ARCHIVAL PRESS RELEASES [Under Construction]
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