Dan Swingley, Psychology professor and IRCS affiliate, is featured in PennCurrent's November 1, 2007 edition in an article entitled How speech sounds convey meaning

The New York Times Science section featured Penn's Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, regarding their interesting research in the article: "How Baboons Think (Yes, Think)" on October 9, 2007.

Mark Liberman, professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, has a daily blog that is featured in an article in the September 20, 2007 Daily Pennsylvanian

Anthony Kroch, professor of Linguistics, has been named the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Cognitive Sciences. Almanac, Vol. 53, No. 16

Martha Farah, professor of psychology, SAS and director of Penn’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. She will be presented with an official certificate and rosette pin at the Fellows Forum on February 17, during the AAAS annual meeting in San Francisco. Announced in the AAAS journal, Science, on November 24, the new Penn AAAS Fellows explained that this citation is “For her many contributions to our understanding of the functioning of the human mind and its neural substrate.”

Barry Silverman, Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been featured in the September 2006 "Spectrum" magazine in an article describing his research in computational behavior modeling that has produced simulators that may assist intelligence analysts prevent attacks.

Christine Massey, a cognitive development psychologist and Director of PENNLincs, IRCS pre-college educational outreach, entered an essay for the Almanac's "Talk about Teaching and Learning" column, entitled, Deep Learning: Problem Solving Learning and Intellectual Development During the College Years on April 25, 2006. This essay was the basis of a discussion that she led on problem-based and problem-solving learning at the Third Annual SAS Dean's Forum on Teaching and Learning on April 26.

Dr. Leif Finkel, professor of bioengineering, was awarded the School of Engineering’s highest teaching honor, the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award. Almanac, Vol. 52, No. 32

Sharon Thompson-Schill, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neurology, was awarded the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching 2005-2006.

Bill Labov of Penn's Linguistics Department, often cited as the founder of sociolinguistics, was featured as the "Doctor of dialects" in the Penn Current in the January 12, 2006 edition.

Vijay Kumar has been named an IEEE Fellow. And, his work on swarming robots was featured in a front-page article in the Philadelphia Business Journal on June 10, 2005, on MSNBC.com., and on the Science Coalition website in October: www.sciencecoalition.org.

Liang Huang, Computer and Information Science graduate student, was awarded the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Ph.D. students by the Office of the Provost. The prizes recognize excellence in teaching by graduate students across the University who, through their dedication to teaching, have had a profound impact on undergraduate education at Penn. Almanac, Vol. 52, No. 1

Vijay Kumar was featured in an article entitled, "Birds do it, bees do it...now robots?" in the Penn Current, April 28, 2005

Kwabena Boahen, Department of Bioengineering, had his work featured in the April Scientific American with a reprint of a Nature article on neuromorphic microchips.

Lila Gleitman, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics, received two important awards in May. She was the recipient of the 2005 Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring. "Designed specifically to honor faculty who mentor Ph.D. students, this prize is intended to underscore the University’s strategic emphasis on graduate education by celebrating the accomplishments of faculty who show special distinction in doctoral education." Almanac, Vol. 51, No.30 Additionally, she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Chicago.

Michael Kearns has been named the National Center Professor of Resource Management and Technology in SEAS. He is a member of the Penn faculty in computer and information science, holds a secondary appointment in the operations and information management department of the Wharton School, and is co-director of Penn’s Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 29

Aravind K. Joshi, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science and Co-Director, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, was awarded the prestigious 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science on March 17. "This award has honored the greatest men and women in science, engineering and technology for 180 years. Franklin Institute Awards identify individuals whose great innovation has benefited humanity, advanced science, launched new fields of inquiry, and deepened our understanding of the universe. The Laureates of The Franklin Institute Awards Program honor the legacy of Benjamin Franklin." Franklin Institute Awards Award Symposium at IRCS

On April 22, he was honored with a symposium at Penn, entitled "Formal Grammars, DNA, and Linguistic Theory." The other speakers were Dr. David Searls of GlaxoSmithKline, and Dr. Rajesh Bhatt of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Benjamin Pierce was listed as one of the "15 most-acknowledged computer scientists" in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was based on an automatic analysis of Acknowledgements sections from a huge repository of computer science articles in the Citeseer database.

The National Academy of Sciences "Frontiers of Science" session on "Computational Analysis of Social Networks," organized and led by Michael Kearns , was selected as the one of eight to be presented to the entire NAS membership at their annual 2005 meeting in May.

Four Penn School of Engineering DMD students were hired to work in London on the movie Valiant, produced by Vanguard Animation, partially owned by Penn alum Neil Braun. The film, about WWII carrier pigeons, will be distributed by Disney and released in the US on August 19. Film credits include: Neil Chatterjee DMD '01, Warren Longmire DMD '05, Beau Roberts DMD '04, and Salim Zayat DMD '01. The credit roll at the end of the movie included a salute to Penn's DMD Program: "Amy Calhoun, Norman Badler, and the University of Pennsylvania Digital Media Design Program."

Sampath Kannan is this year's recipient of the Ford Motor Company Award to the best advisor in the School.

Vijay Kumar received $5 million over five years from the Department of Defense under the MURI Program for "Scalable Swarms of Autonomous Robots and Mobile Sensors." Co-PI's on the project are George Pappas, Ali Jadbabaie and Dan Koditschek. He was also quoted in the March 7 Wall Street Journal about sending robots to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Michael Kearns, Professor of Computer and Information Science and co-director of our Institute for Research on Cognitive Science, has been selected by the School's Honors Committee as this year's recipient of the Heilmeier Research Award. Michael was cited for his extraordinary contributions to game theory and machine learning. He has brought fundamental ideas of computer science out of the "machine room" into the larger realm of social and economic systems. The impact of his work amply fulfilled the high expectations of the Committee.
(Quote from Eduardo Glandt, Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science)

Spring 2005: Max Mintz received the first "Award for Teaching Excellence in the Hard Sciences" from the University's Student Committee on Undergraduate Education for his "outstanding skills to engage and inspire students."

John C. Trueswell, Associate Professor of Psychology, and affiliated and very active member of the IRCS community, has recently published a book: Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use Bridging the Language-as-Product and Language-as-Action Traditions. This book, available through MIT Press, was co-edited with Michael K. Tanenhaus, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics at the University of Rochester.

Dr. Susan B. Davidson, professor of computer and information science for the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the inaugural George A. Weiss Professor of Computer and Information Science. Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 8

Norman Badler was featured on the front page of Penn Current's October 7 edition as a leading computer scientist and creator of animated virtual human beings for training systems.

Lyle Ungar was quoted about advancements in artificial intelligence in the August 30 Philadelphia Inquirer.

Kostas Danillidis appeared on the Discovery Channel on June 17 in a series called "Debunked" about the stone spheres of Costa Rica.

Vijay Kumar was featured in an article on wireless networking for robots in the July 12 Computerworld. Article

A July 25 feature in the Honolulu Star Bulletin recounted the history of computing, including the development of ENIAC during WW II.

The Daily Pennsylvanian of June 10th carried an article on bridging the global digital divide about Communitech's summer project installing two labs in Pradesh, India and two in and around Lahore, Pakistan. Communitech is an organization run by students and advised by Joe Sun, Director of Academic Affairs. Article

Penn's RoboCup team, the UPennalizers, finished fourth in this year's four-legged league competition out of 24 international teams. They finished as the top American team at the tournament, held June 27-July 5 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Justin Hulbert, C '04; received a President's Award for Undergraduate Research on "The Role of Scene and Syntax in Mental Verb Learning"; advisors: Dr. Lila Gleitman, Dr. Anna Papafragou. This award, which was initiated by Dr. Judith Rodin, recognizes "the best of the best" of undergraduate research at Penn. The Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships announced that the recipients were selected by a faculty committee from 75 papers and projects already chosen for departmental distinction. The President's Award brings with it a $1,000 honorarium as well as publication in Res, Penn's new journal devoted to undergraduate research. (Almanac, May 25, 2004)

Nick Montfort, CIS PhD student, was featured in the Penn Current for his book, "Twisty Little Passages" (MIT, 2003), which explores interactive fiction.

Norm Badler was quoted in the March 14 Philadelphia Inquirer about the rise of video game design as a career. The article noted Penn's digital media design program and its role in teaching skills that can be applied to the creation of video games and 3-D animation.

Norm was also quoted in the February 7 Fort Worth Star-Telegram on the history of computer modeling.

Max Mintz was a featured professor in a January 18 New York Times article entitled "Tough Love" on the toughest college classes in the country for his course "Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science."

Dan Lee received an NSF Career Award for his work entitled "Biologically Inspired Learning Algorithms for Artificial Sensorimotor Systems."

On 11/7/03, ABC Channel 6 Gary Pappa's PrimeTime featured the GRASP (General Robotics Automation, Sensing, Perception) Lab.

Vijay Kumar was featured in fall '03 in an article on intelligent robots in the Managing Technology section of Knowledge @ Wharton.

The Daily Pennsylvanian carried an article on October 21, 2003 entitled "Teaching a new dog new tricks" on the RoboCup competition.

Norm Badler was quoted in the October 9, 2003 New York Times about computer representations of movement.

Carl Gunter hit the news for his work in developing a programmable credit card. It was featured in the October 9 Cleveland Plain Dealer, the October 6 The Register, the September 23 Washington Times, the September 24 Washington Post, and September 24 on Discovery Channel Canada. The Daily Pennsylvanian also carried an article.

Last summer, the UPennalizers, our team of four Sony robotic dogs, finished second worldwide in the RoboCup competition, in Padua, Italy. Of course, the team couldn't have done it without its human handlers, a group of four engineering students mentored by Dan Lee. Penn was initially considered one of the weaker of the 24 teams from around the world. They began to garner attention as they competed closely with some elite teams. They stayed tough to the end, with a final score of 3-4.