Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon

CSD faculty were honored with the "Most Influential Paper Award" by the 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2020). Their 2010 "Oddball" algorithm has applications in detecting network intrusions, campaign donation irregularities, accounting fraud, and more. https://tinyurl.com/pakdd2020award

The Mother of Fishes, an opera by Jorge Sastre and CS faculty Roger Dannenberg, will be broadcast on WQED 89.3 FM's Performance in Pittsburgh show this Friday, Nov. 6 around 7:50pm EST, with commentary by Jim Cunningham, following a concert by pianist Tina Faigen at 7. (or streaming at https://www.wqed.org/fm/player/main). A wonderful video is also online in 6 parts at this YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist

A trio of distinguished School of Computer Science faculty members Christos Faloutsos, Mor Harchol-Balter and Katia Sycara formally received professorships during a virtual celebration on Thursday, Oct. 22. https://csd.cmu.edu/news/scs-celebrates-new-professorships

Math Puzzle Resolved by Translating It Into Satisfiability Problem "The problem has intrigued many people for decades, almost a century," Heule said of Keller's conjecture. "This is really a showcase for what can be done now that was not possible previously." ://csd.cmu.edu/news/cmu-scientists-solve-90-year-old-geometry-problem

The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced that SCS graduate students Brandon Bohrer, Rogerio Bonatti, Megan Hofmann, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung and Lijun Yu are among the recipients of the 2021 Siebel Scholars award. Now in its 20th year, the program recognizes almost 100 students annually from the world's leading graduate schools of computer science, as well as business, energy science and bioengineering. It supports students in their final year of study. https://csd.cmu.edu//five-scs-students-named-2021-siebel-s