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Penn to Lead $10 Million Project on Computer-assisted Programming
Congratulations to Rajeev Alur for his leadership on a $10M NSF Expeditions award.
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Penn Joins MIT-led Project on ‘Printable Robots’
Congratulations to Vijay Kumar, Andre Dehon, Insup Lee and Sanjeev Khanna for their Expeditions proposal, led by Daniela Rus at MIT. NSF Award
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Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Fellowship 2012 awards...
Congratulations to Alexander Shoulson, PhD student advised by Dr. Norm Badler, and Mabel Zhang, PhD Student advised by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis, for receiving honorable mentions in this year's NSF Graduate Fellowship.
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Teachers, Apply for the Tapestry Workshop@Penn
July 11th-13th, 2012
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WICS HIGH SCHOOL DAY FOR GIRLS
Friday, April 20, 2012
...introducing girls to the exciting field of Computer Science!

View Program and Photos from the WICS High School Day for Girls 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011!

WICS is supported in part by the Trustees Council of Penn Women.

BOOTUP Camp!
A free computing camp for Phila. Public and Charter High School Students. Read More...
June 25th-29th, 2012
Click to Register....

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12 Philadelphia Area High School Girls honored with the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award at Penn Engineering on 3/21/12.
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"Three CIS Undergraduates Selected as KPCB Engineering Fellows"
Jeff Grimes (CIS'15), Zachary Wasserman (CIS'13) and Nathan Fraenkel (CIS'14) have been selected as 2012 KPCB Engineering Fellows.
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"The best FPGA papers of all time!"
Andre DeHon is author on 5 of the list of the 25 most important Field-Programmable Gate Arrays papers published in the field.
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Intel Innovators Competition
Congratulations to Jeff Kiske and Eric Berdinis, two of our Computer Engineering Juniors, for winning the Intel Innovators Competition along with a $50,000 prize! Check out Eric's Pitch in Round 3...
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"'Sprinting' Chips Could Push Phones to the Speed Limit"
New Scientist article on Dr. Milo Martin's research.
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"Swarm of Mosquitoes? Nope, a Quad Rotor"
Check out the GRASP Lab being featured on NBC 10 News!
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Weiss Professor Susan Davidson
Department Chair
"Inspiring Leadership in Computer Science"

See...In the Loop@CIS Fall 2011 newsletter!


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American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Kearns for being elected to the2012 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read More...
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TENURE
Congratulations to Dr. Ben Taskar, Magerman Term Associate Professor, for being awarded tenure this spring. 
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Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching

Congratulations to Dr. CJ Taylor for being awarded the University of Pennsylvania's Faculty award, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback for Distinguished Teaching!
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2012 IEEE Fellow
Congratulations to Kostas Daniilidis for being named a 2012 IEEE Fellow for his contributions to visual motion analysis, omni-directional vision, and three-dimensional robot vision.
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AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to Boon Thau Loo for winning an AFOSR Young Investigator Award for his proposal "A Unified Algebraic and Logic-based Framework towards Safe Routing Implementations"! Penn News Article
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Congratulations to our ACL fellows!!!
Congratulations to Aravind Joshi and Mitch Marcus for being selected as ACL Fellows, which recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary. We would also like to congratulate our CIS Alums who were also chosen: Michael Collins, Julia Hirschberg and Kathleen McKeown.
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Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2012
Congratulations, Kaitlin! You make us proud! For more about Kaitlin, see the fall 2011 CIS newsletter. Kaitlin Pollock was selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2012.
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CIS Welcomes New Faculty!!!
Aaron Roth
 Raj and Neera Singh Assistant Professor
Benedict Brown
Lecturer

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CIS is Hiring New Faculty!!!
Check out the available positions here...
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Congratulations to our Seniors who are going on for their PhD!
Rumen Stamatov in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) at Duke University & Jessica Ouyang in NLP at Columbia University
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View Video overview of CIS Master's programs
...CIS/MSE, MCIT, CGGT, Robotics, & EMBS Master's Programs
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Precise Seminar

Vojtech Forejt
Wednesday, May 16th at 12:15pm
307 Levine Hall
"Automatic Verification of Competitive Stochastic Systems"

GRASP SEMINAR

Michelle Johnson
Monday, May 21st at 11am
Heilmeier Hall, 100 Towne
"Insights into Motor and Brain Changes after Robot-Assisted NeuroRehabilitation"

Spring Colloquium Lecture Series

Faculty research presentations

Theory Seminar

PRiML Seminar

Programming Languages Seminar

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Academic Calendar

Apr 25th - Apr 27th
Reading Days

Apr 30th - May 8th
Finals

May 14th
University Commencement Ceremony

May 21st - June 29th
Summer Session I Term

May 28th
Memorial Day Holiday - No Class

July 2nd - Aug 10th
Summer Session II Term

July 4th
4th of July Holiday - No Class
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