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Type | Private school for computer science |
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Established | 1965 (department); 1988 (school) |
Chairman | Benno Bern |
Dean | Randal E. Bryant |
Academic staff | 260 [1] |
Undergraduates | 565 [1] |
Postgraduates | 281 [1] |
408 [1] | |
Address | 5000 Forbes Avenue
[2] , , , |
Campus | Urban |
Website | School of Computer Science |
The School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a leading private school for computer science.
SCS has consistently cemented its place among the top computer science programs in the United States over the decades, and is currently ranked fourth by U.S. News & World Report. [3] Carnegie Mellon's Department of Computer Science was established in 1965 and evolved into a separate school in 1988.
SCS students, faculty and researchers have been making strides over the last 15 years, excelling in the fields of distributed systems, networking, software technology, robotics, and parallel processing. [4]
The School of Computer Science began as the Computation Center in 1956. [nb 1] the same year the university received its first computer, an IBM 650. [nb 2]
The Computation Center was a collaboration between the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now the Tepper School of Business) and the Psychology, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics departments. [nb 1]
Alan J. Perlis, who attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) as an undergraduate, was named head of the Computation Center. Perlis worked with political scientist Herbert A. Simon and GSIA alumnus Allen Newell, in addition to graduate students and other members of the faculty. In its first year, the Computation Center had a four-person staff and a $53,000 budget. [nb 1]
The Computation Center opened up to undergraduate students in 1958 with a programming course for freshmen, the first course of its kind in the nation. In the coming years, computing would become an important part of Carnegie Tech's undergraduate education and research, catering to students in a variety of fields. [nb 3]
By 1965, the university's computing programs were consistently ranked among best in the nation, along with those at MIT and Stanford. [nb 3] That same year, [4] the Computation Center evolved into the Department of Computer and Information Science following a $5 million grant from Richard King Mellon. [nb 3] The department, which at first only offered a Ph.D. program, was housed in the Mellon College of Science. It gained momentum by selecting its initial students from Carnegie Tech graduates in other disciplines, including mathematics, electrical engineering, psychology, and the GSIA Systems and Communications Sciences Program. [4]
During H. Guyford Stever's tenure as university president (1965–1972), computer science continued to flourish. Government grants provided the program with the means to expand its efforts in research and education, and the university became known for its work in artificial intelligence and innovative programming languages. [nb 4]
Starting in 1986, the Department of Computer Science began a two-year "floating period," where it began to develop an identity outside of the Mellon College of Science. During this time, the department expanded its areas of study, [4] numbers of students and faculty members, and funding, 90 percent of which came from grants. [nb 5] The department, now recognized as a key facet of the university, became the School of Computer Science in 1988, one of the first computer science schools in the country. [4]
In the 1980s, computing largely relied on time-sharing mainframe computers. Under this system, individual users lack computing power and are connected to a central computer, which handles the computational needs of hundreds of users at once. [nb 6]
In 1980, Carnegie Mellon had five mainframe computers catering to about 3,800 students and faculty members. Simon, Newell, [nb 6] and Robotics Institute-head Raj Reddy, [nb 7] along with Provost Richard Van Horn, made a push for personal computers, which they saw as a better way to make computing accessible to everyone on campus. Personal computers on campus required the development of a local area network. [nb 6]
In order to create such a network, Carnegie Mellon partnered with IBM in 1981, the latter of which invested $35 million into the project. What resulted was the Andrew Network, which connected 10,000 personal computers to central storage computers ( servers), in addition to printers in computer clusters and offices. [nb 6] The Andrew Network was a revolutionary piece of technology, attracting national attention. [nb 5]
The University Computation Center was built in 1983 to house Carnegie Mellon's computing services. It was renamed Richard M. Cyert Hall in 1993. [nb 6]
Additionally, SCS, along with Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts, sponsor the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), which offers a two-year Masters of Entertainment Technology degree program. [6]
The School of Computer Science Complex is a $98 million project that includes the Gates Center for Computer Science and the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies. The complex has been under construction since 2007 and is expected to open by summer 2009. [17]
The complex aims to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver rating, if not higher. LEED standards, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), award green construction and design on a number of levels. [18]
Plans for the complex began in 2004, when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave the university $20 million. In February 2008, the Henry L. Hillman Foundation gifted Carnegie Mellon $10 million, at which point the then-unnamed front building of the complex became the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies. The complex is being designed by Mack Scogin Merril Elam Architects, an award-winning firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. [17]
The 210,000-square-foot complex will occupy the valley on Carnegie Mellon's West Campus surrounded by the Purnell Center, Cyert Hall, Doherty Hall and Newell-Simon Hall. The Gates Center (150,000 square feet) will face South in the direction of the grassy area on campus called "the Cut," and the Hillman Center (60,000 square feet) will face North toward Forbes Avenue, serving as the complex's main entrance. The two buildings will be connected on every level. The complex will include about 310 offices, 11 conference rooms, 32 labs, 8,000 square feet of project space and the Planetary Robotics Center. It will also house 12 classrooms, including a 250-seat auditorium. [18]
The Computer Science Complex will dramatically increase the location's pedestrian and green spaces. Part of this will be the result of the complex's 150-space covered garage, which will greatly reduce the amount of surface parking. [18]
Additionally, the Gates Center will connect to the Purnell Center, which houses the School of Drama, through the Randy Pausch Memorial Footbridge. The bridge represents professor Randy Pausch's own devotion to linking computer science and entertainment, as Pausch was a of co-founder Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. [19]
SCS research professor Scott Fahlman is credited with the invention of the smiley face emoticon. He suggested the emoticon on an electronic bboard in 1982 as a way for board readers know when an author was joking. The text of Fahlman's original post was lost for nearly 20 years but was later recovered from backup tapes: [23]
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19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :) From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes - given current trends. For this, use
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Tartan Racing is a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and General Motors Corporation that competes in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The Grand Challenge is a competition for driverless cars sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Tartan Racing is led by Carnegie Mellon roboticist William L. "Red" Whittaker. [24]
In 2007, Tartan Racing won the DARPA Urban Challenge, in which 11 autonomous ground vehicles raced over urban roadways. In the challenge, team vehicles were required to obey all California driving laws, share the road with other drivers and robotic cars, and complete the course in under six hours. Tartan Racing won the $2 million cash prize with Boss, a reworked 2007 Chevy Tahoe. Averaging about 14 miles an hour for a 55 mile trip, Boss beat the second-place team, Stanford Racing, by just under 20 minutes. [25]
Faculty members from the School of Computer Science have received international recognition for achievements within their fields. These honors include include memberships and fellowships in the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. [26] Eight SCS faculty and alumni have won the A. M. Turing Award, the Association for Computer Machinery's most prestigious award [27], often called the "Nobel Prize of computing." These include Raj Reddy, Manuel Blum and Edmund M. Clarke of the active faculty, in addition to Emeritus Faculty Dana Scott. [28]
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help page).File:SCSlogo.jpg | |
Type | Private school for computer science |
---|---|
Established | 1965 (department); 1988 (school) |
Chairman | Benno Bern |
Dean | Randal E. Bryant |
Academic staff | 260 [1] |
Undergraduates | 565 [1] |
Postgraduates | 281 [1] |
408 [1] | |
Address | 5000 Forbes Avenue
[2] , , , |
Campus | Urban |
Website | School of Computer Science |
The School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a leading private school for computer science.
SCS has consistently cemented its place among the top computer science programs in the United States over the decades, and is currently ranked fourth by U.S. News & World Report. [3] Carnegie Mellon's Department of Computer Science was established in 1965 and evolved into a separate school in 1988.
SCS students, faculty and researchers have been making strides over the last 15 years, excelling in the fields of distributed systems, networking, software technology, robotics, and parallel processing. [4]
The School of Computer Science began as the Computation Center in 1956. [nb 1] the same year the university received its first computer, an IBM 650. [nb 2]
The Computation Center was a collaboration between the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now the Tepper School of Business) and the Psychology, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics departments. [nb 1]
Alan J. Perlis, who attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) as an undergraduate, was named head of the Computation Center. Perlis worked with political scientist Herbert A. Simon and GSIA alumnus Allen Newell, in addition to graduate students and other members of the faculty. In its first year, the Computation Center had a four-person staff and a $53,000 budget. [nb 1]
The Computation Center opened up to undergraduate students in 1958 with a programming course for freshmen, the first course of its kind in the nation. In the coming years, computing would become an important part of Carnegie Tech's undergraduate education and research, catering to students in a variety of fields. [nb 3]
By 1965, the university's computing programs were consistently ranked among best in the nation, along with those at MIT and Stanford. [nb 3] That same year, [4] the Computation Center evolved into the Department of Computer and Information Science following a $5 million grant from Richard King Mellon. [nb 3] The department, which at first only offered a Ph.D. program, was housed in the Mellon College of Science. It gained momentum by selecting its initial students from Carnegie Tech graduates in other disciplines, including mathematics, electrical engineering, psychology, and the GSIA Systems and Communications Sciences Program. [4]
During H. Guyford Stever's tenure as university president (1965–1972), computer science continued to flourish. Government grants provided the program with the means to expand its efforts in research and education, and the university became known for its work in artificial intelligence and innovative programming languages. [nb 4]
Starting in 1986, the Department of Computer Science began a two-year "floating period," where it began to develop an identity outside of the Mellon College of Science. During this time, the department expanded its areas of study, [4] numbers of students and faculty members, and funding, 90 percent of which came from grants. [nb 5] The department, now recognized as a key facet of the university, became the School of Computer Science in 1988, one of the first computer science schools in the country. [4]
In the 1980s, computing largely relied on time-sharing mainframe computers. Under this system, individual users lack computing power and are connected to a central computer, which handles the computational needs of hundreds of users at once. [nb 6]
In 1980, Carnegie Mellon had five mainframe computers catering to about 3,800 students and faculty members. Simon, Newell, [nb 6] and Robotics Institute-head Raj Reddy, [nb 7] along with Provost Richard Van Horn, made a push for personal computers, which they saw as a better way to make computing accessible to everyone on campus. Personal computers on campus required the development of a local area network. [nb 6]
In order to create such a network, Carnegie Mellon partnered with IBM in 1981, the latter of which invested $35 million into the project. What resulted was the Andrew Network, which connected 10,000 personal computers to central storage computers ( servers), in addition to printers in computer clusters and offices. [nb 6] The Andrew Network was a revolutionary piece of technology, attracting national attention. [nb 5]
The University Computation Center was built in 1983 to house Carnegie Mellon's computing services. It was renamed Richard M. Cyert Hall in 1993. [nb 6]
Additionally, SCS, along with Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts, sponsor the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), which offers a two-year Masters of Entertainment Technology degree program. [6]
The School of Computer Science Complex is a $98 million project that includes the Gates Center for Computer Science and the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies. The complex has been under construction since 2007 and is expected to open by summer 2009. [17]
The complex aims to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver rating, if not higher. LEED standards, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), award green construction and design on a number of levels. [18]
Plans for the complex began in 2004, when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave the university $20 million. In February 2008, the Henry L. Hillman Foundation gifted Carnegie Mellon $10 million, at which point the then-unnamed front building of the complex became the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies. The complex is being designed by Mack Scogin Merril Elam Architects, an award-winning firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. [17]
The 210,000-square-foot complex will occupy the valley on Carnegie Mellon's West Campus surrounded by the Purnell Center, Cyert Hall, Doherty Hall and Newell-Simon Hall. The Gates Center (150,000 square feet) will face South in the direction of the grassy area on campus called "the Cut," and the Hillman Center (60,000 square feet) will face North toward Forbes Avenue, serving as the complex's main entrance. The two buildings will be connected on every level. The complex will include about 310 offices, 11 conference rooms, 32 labs, 8,000 square feet of project space and the Planetary Robotics Center. It will also house 12 classrooms, including a 250-seat auditorium. [18]
The Computer Science Complex will dramatically increase the location's pedestrian and green spaces. Part of this will be the result of the complex's 150-space covered garage, which will greatly reduce the amount of surface parking. [18]
Additionally, the Gates Center will connect to the Purnell Center, which houses the School of Drama, through the Randy Pausch Memorial Footbridge. The bridge represents professor Randy Pausch's own devotion to linking computer science and entertainment, as Pausch was a of co-founder Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. [19]
SCS research professor Scott Fahlman is credited with the invention of the smiley face emoticon. He suggested the emoticon on an electronic bboard in 1982 as a way for board readers know when an author was joking. The text of Fahlman's original post was lost for nearly 20 years but was later recovered from backup tapes: [23]
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19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :) From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes - given current trends. For this, use
|
Tartan Racing is a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and General Motors Corporation that competes in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The Grand Challenge is a competition for driverless cars sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Tartan Racing is led by Carnegie Mellon roboticist William L. "Red" Whittaker. [24]
In 2007, Tartan Racing won the DARPA Urban Challenge, in which 11 autonomous ground vehicles raced over urban roadways. In the challenge, team vehicles were required to obey all California driving laws, share the road with other drivers and robotic cars, and complete the course in under six hours. Tartan Racing won the $2 million cash prize with Boss, a reworked 2007 Chevy Tahoe. Averaging about 14 miles an hour for a 55 mile trip, Boss beat the second-place team, Stanford Racing, by just under 20 minutes. [25]
Faculty members from the School of Computer Science have received international recognition for achievements within their fields. These honors include include memberships and fellowships in the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. [26] Eight SCS faculty and alumni have won the A. M. Turing Award, the Association for Computer Machinery's most prestigious award [27], often called the "Nobel Prize of computing." These include Raj Reddy, Manuel Blum and Edmund M. Clarke of the active faculty, in addition to Emeritus Faculty Dana Scott. [28]
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