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June 27, 2002 Vol. 12, No. 49
The "8 1/2 x 11 News" is published each week by the Department of Public
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CARNEGIE MELLON WINS ROBOTIC SOCCER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Carnegie Mellon's autonomous robotic soccer team, CMPack'02, won the recent Sony Legged League World Championship at RoboCup 2002 in Fukuoka, Japan. CMPack'02 defeated rUNSWift of the University of New South Wales, Australia, 2-1 in penalty kicks after regulation play ended in a 3-3 tie. —In round-robin play CMPack'02 defeated ARAIBO of the University of Tokyo (5-1), the German Team (3-1), and SPQR of the University of Rome, Italy (7-0). In the final round, CMPack '02 defeated Team Sweden (9-0) and Robomutts++ of the University of Melbourne (4-0), before defeating rUNSWift in the title game.
—The CMPack'02 team members are Associate Computer Science Professor —In the Small-Sized League, CMDragons '02 posted a 3-1 mark in round-robin play before losing in the quarterfinals to Roobots of Australia by the score of 3-0. CMDragons'02 defeated Agents Inspired-RoGi Team of Spain, Owaribito-CU of Japan and Team Makushita all by the score of 10-0. Lucky Star of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore, defeated CMDragons '02 by the score of 2-0. Cornell University won the Small-Sized League World Championship. —Further information: www.cmu.edu/PR/press_releases —CMDragons'02 team members are Veloso, Robotics Institute post-doctoral fellow Brett Browning, doctoral students James Bruce and Michael Bowling, computer science undergraduates Dinesh Govindaraju and Jennifer Lin and mechanical engineering undergraduate Cathy Chang. —Further information: www.robocup2002.org/index.html WEST COAST CAMPUS OFFERS SUMMER COURSE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Thirty San Francisco Bay Area high school students entering their senior year this fall will participate in a new robotics summer course offered by Carnegie Mellon at its West Coast campus at Moffett Field, Calif. The course is being offered in collaboration with NASA's Ames Research Center and the National Hispanic University at San Jose, Calif. The seven-week Robotic Autonomy course will be held from July 1 to Aug. 16. —Students will build, program and operate their own vision-based, mobile robots as they learn about the electronics, mechanics and computer science of robotic systems. After the course is completed, graduates of the program will take their robots home for more experimentation. Each robot is worth more than $1,000. —Many of the 30 students are Hispanic high school students from the San Jose area, including the new Latino College Preparatory Academy on the National Hispanic University campus. —Illah Nourbakhsh, assistant professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, will teach the class. Nourbakhsh is co-founder of the institute's Toy Robots Initiative and conducts research in electric wheelchair sensing devices, robot learning, theoretical robot architecture, believable robot personality, visual navigation and robot locomotion. —The Robotic Autonomy course is Carnegie Mellon's first outreach program on its West Coast campus at the NASA Research Park. Courses leading to master's degrees in software engineering and e-business will begin in the fall. —Further information is posted on the bboard, official.cmu-news, for June 25. MPM PROGRAM OFFERS INFORMATION LUNCHEON The Heinz School's Master of Public Management (MPM) program is a part-time graduate degree curriculum geared toward the needs of working professionals. Courses meet one night a week and are offered three semesters per year. Concentrations of study are in areas such as information systems, human resources, management of non-profit organizations, financial resources, management of health systems and leadership in higher education. —An information luncheon about the MPM program will be held at noon, Thursday, July 11 in the Peter-Wright Room, University Center. To reserve your place, contact Mary Hoover at maryb@andrew.cmu.edu. CARNEGIE MELLON SAYS GOODBYE TO SIGMA-5. Sigma-5, one of Carnegie Mellon's oldest and most vaunted scientific tools will take its place soon in the Computer History Museum at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, Calif. It will join more than 3,000 artifacts, 2,000 films, 5,000 photographs and thousands of gigabytes of software that tell the story of computer evolution. —"During the 1970s, the facility was astonishingly successful, providing spectra at 250, and later at 600 Mhz, to investigators in organic and biochemistry in many states in the United States as well as investigators from Europe and Africa," says Chemistry Professor Emeritus Aksel Bothner-By. —The entire system included five, seven-foot tall cabinets, a main control panel, a large printer and a monitor. The large machine holds only 16 kilobytes of random access memory and just three megabytes of data in its hard drive—less than an ordinary personal computer today. Further information: official.cmu-news, June 24. DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR ANDY AWARD NOMINATIONS The nomination deadline for this year's Andy Awards has been extended to Friday, July 12. The university-wide staff recognition program honors staff for innovation, enthusiasm, citizenship and dedication. Nomination forms and statement of support forms are available on the Web at www.cmu.edu/andyawards and are also available in the June/July issue of the Carnegie Mellon News. Two one-page statements of support must accompany each nomination. Award winners will be announced at the Sept. 23 ceremony in McConomy Auditorium. TICKETS ON SALE FOR JULY 13 EMPLOYEE PICNIC AT KENNYWOOD This year's employee picnic at Kennywood Park, presented by Staff Council, is Saturday, July 13. Pavilions 8 and 9 will be reserved for Carnegie Mellon employees, their families and friends. Tickets to the park will be sold at the following times and locations:
—Only employees presenting their own Carnegie Mellon ID may purchase one Ride-All-Day ticket for $5 (valid only on July 13). Four additional Ride-All-Day tickets may be purchased for $12 each. Additional Ride-All-Day tickets are $16 each. General admission tickets are $5. Tickets must be purchased with cash only. PERSONAL MENTION —Scott M. Doughty, associate director of admission, will leave the university on July 12 after five years of service to become director of College Placement at the Pennington School in New Jersey. —Cristina Amon, the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, and head of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES), has received the prestigious Ralph Coats Roe Award from the Mechanical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The award is for excellence in teaching and outstanding contributions to advancing the Mechanical Engineering profession. Amon was honored during the ASEE conference in Montreal on June 18. —Recent ECE doctoral graduate John DeVale has won the prestigious William C. Carter Award for best paper at the June 24 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networking in Washington, D.C. The paper, co-authored by his advisor Professor Phil Koopman, is based on his doctoral research on common causes of fragile software and ways to eliminate them as part of the Ballista project at Carnegie Mellon. DeVale graduated in December 2001 and works for Intel Research in Austin, Texas. NEWS BRIEFS —President Jared L. Cohon has announced that the Pennsylvania Bureau of Teacher Certification and Preparation has granted approval for five years to Carnegie Mellon for the following certification programs: The Master of Science in Educational Technology Management Program, The Music Education Certification Program, and the Educational Leadership Certification within the Master of Public Management Program. Graduates of the programs can teach anywhere in the U.S.
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