Andreas Krause and Carlos Guestrin will present a tutorial at ICML 2008 in Helsinki.

Carlos Guestrin was granted an ONR Young Investigator Award.

Here is a recent MSNBC article on the CASCADES and sensor placement projects.

Sajid Siddiqi will present his thesis proposal on "Latent Variable and Predictive Models of Dynamical Systems."

Jonathan Huang, Carlos Guestrin and Leonidas Guibas received Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Student Paper Award at NIPS 2007 for the paper "Efficient Inference for Distributions on Permutations"

Which blogs should we read to be most up to date on the Blogosphere? Where should we place sensors to detect contaminations in water networks? The CASCADES project attempts to answer these questions in a unified way. Here are some discussions on the project. Also see the news release and this post.

Andreas Krause presented his thesis proposal on "Nonmyopic Observation Selection: Theory and Applications".

Joseph Gonzalez and Joseph Bradely were both awarded NSF Fellowships graduate research fellowships.

Carlos Guestrin, Daphne Koller, Ron Parr and Shobha Venkataraman received the 2007 IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper prize in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) for "Efficient Solution Algorithms for Factored MDPs." This prize is awarded to an outstanding paper published in JAIR in the preceding five calendar years.

Carlos Guestrin was awarded a 2007 IBM Faculty Fellowship.

Joseph Gonzalez was awarded the AT&T Labs research Fellowship.

Jure Leskovec, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Christos Faloutsos, Jeanne VanBriesen and Natalie Glance were awarded the Best Student Paper Award at ACM SIGKDD 2007 for the paper "Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks".

Andreas Krause was awarded the Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship.

Carlos Guestrin was granted an NSF Career Award.

Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Anupam Gupta and Jon Kleinberg were awarded the Best Paper Award at IPSN 2006 for the paper "Near-optimal Sensor Placements: Maximizing Information while Minimizing Communication Cost".

Carlos Guestrin was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

Carlos Guestrin was awarded a 2006 IBM Faculty Fellowship.

Geoff Gordon was selected for DARPA's Computer Science Study Panel.

Carlos Guestrin, Andreas Krause and Ajit Singh were awarded the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at ICML 2005 for the paper "Near-optimal Sensor Placements in Gaussian Processes".

Andreas Krause and Carlos Guestrin were awarded the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at UAI 2005 for the paper "Near-optimal Nonmyopic Value of Information in Graphical Models".

Mark Paskin, Carlos Guestrin and Jim McFadden received the Best Paper Award at the Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'05) for "A Robust Architecture for Distributed Inference in Sensor Networks."

Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Sam Madden, Joseph Hellerstein and Wei Hong received the Best Paper Award at the 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2004) for "Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks."

Ben Taskar, Carlos Guestrin and Daphne Koller received the Best Paper Award at the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS 2003) for "Max-Margin Markov Networks."

Matt Rosencrantz, Geoff Gordon, and Sebastian Thrun won the Best Stuent Paper Award at the AAMAS conference for "Locating moving entities in dynamic indoor environments with teams of mobile robots."