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CIS awarded seed grant from Microsoft Research and the National Center for Women and IT...
to support "Guidance Counselor and Computer Science Teacher Day," a new initiative to encourage women to study Computer Science in college.
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View more photos from WICS High School Day for Girls
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"IT jobs will grow faster than general employment, according to Microsoft study"
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CIS Undergraduate Research Poster Event Top 3 Places

1st Place - Jiawei Matteus Pan, "Scene Recognition in Movies" (advisor: Ben Taskar)
2nd Place - Andrew Matas,

"Scene Recognition in Videos"

(advisor: Ben Taskar)
3rd Place - Mihai Oprea, "Declarative Toolkit for Rapid Network Protocol Simulation and Experimentation"

(advisor: Boon Loo)
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Innovative New Master's Degree Program in Embedded Systems
The newly emerging discipline of embedded systems lies at the intersection of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. The Master's of Science in Engineering in Embedded Systems (EMBS)

is an innovative and unique degree program, which trains students in the fundamentals of embedded systems and implementation.
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COMPUTERWORLD 2008 - IT Schools to Watch
Penn's MCIT Program ranked in the top 10 Innovative Schools to Watch.
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"CS for Everyone"
Penn's MCIT program in the Metro...
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Weiss Professor Susan Davidson
Department Chair

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Fellow of the Royal Society
	Congratulations to our Adjunct Professor, Peter Buneman, for being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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DARPA 2009 CS Study Panel
	Ben Taskar has been invited to participate on the DARPA 2009 Computer Science Study Panel, a great and well-deserved honor.

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2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Award
	Steve Zdancewic received the highly recognized Sloan Faculty Fellowship Award this year along with our secondary faculty Josh Plotkin, Assistant Professor in Biology.

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NSF Career Award
	Boon Thau Loo received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award on "Towards a Unified Declarative Platform for Composable Verifiable Networks."

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Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award

Congratulations to Nate Foster and Jenn Wortman, 2009 co-winners of the Rubinoff Award. This award is given to our graduating PhDs "whose dissertation has resulted in or could lead to innovative applications of computer technology." Past Recipients...

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IBM Graduate Fellowship

CIS PhD student Colin Blundell won the highly competitive IBM Graduate Fellowship for 2009-10.

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Additional Faculty and Student Awards

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NEWSLETTERS
Annual GRASP Newsletter Summer 09
CG@Penn Newletter! Issue 3, Summer 2009

FACULTY RESEARCH SEMINARS

Andreas Haeberlen
Thursday, November 19th
Wu & Chen Aud. at 3pm
"Distributed Systems with Multiple Administrative Domains"

PRECISE LAB SEMINAR

Chris Gill
Monday, November 23rd
Levine 315 at 1:30pm
"Non-Preemptive Scheduling Policy Design for Tasks with Stochastic Execution Times"

COLLOQUIUM LECTURE SERIES

Larry Peterson
Tuesday, December 1st
Wu & Chen Aud at 3:30pm
"Towards the Big "C" Cloud"

David Culler
Thursday, December 3rd
Heilmeier Hall, Towne 100
at 3:30pm
"TBA"

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Academic Calendar

Nov 26th - 29th
Thanksgiving Break

Dec 10th
Classes End

Dec 11th - 14th
Reading Days

Dec 15th - 22nd
Finals

Dec 22nd
Fall Term Ends

Jan 13th
Spring Term Begins

Jan 18th
Martin Luther King Jr Day
No Classes

Mar 6th - Mar 14th
Spring Break


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