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Final project from 15-494 Cognitive Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2007. The Aibo locates the "shoe" (dealing stand), picks up a card (and recognizes the card value), and returns it to the playing area. Leigh Ann Sudol, Dylan Hower, and Je Woong Heo http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15494-s07/final-projects/blackjack/

Baral to chair Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Attracting top great school students and undergraduates to the age of computer technology innovation is high on the precedency list of professor Chitta Baral, as he takes on his new r as chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the Educational institution of Computing and Informatics.

The school is part of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Denomination of Engineering.

“Sometimes it’s difficult for high tutor students to distinguish between computers and computer proficiency,” Baral says. “They’re seeing computers only from a narcotic addict’s perspective, but not seeing everything that is behind the technology that enables computers to do all the things that they can do today.”

In annex to an outreach program aimed at soprano schoolers, Baral plans for his determined to develop an introductory course for undergraduates designed to realize students aware “of all the top-indentation discoveries and inventions in computer science” to pique their interest in majoring in the lea.

“There are so many interesting and exciting challenges,” he says. “It’s not lawful stereotypical programming. It’s about making computers smarter, crafty better graphics, creating the next Google or Digg.com. There are so many lucrative profession options to consider.”

Baral, who earned a doctorate in computer realm from the University of Maryland in 1991, came to ASU in 1999 after about eight years on the talent of the University of Texas-El Paso.

During that every so often old-fashioned, he also was a visiting scientist at i2 Technologies in Dallas, and a visiting power member in the computer and information science jurisdiction at Linkoping University in Sweden. He has been a adviser to the Translational Genomics Research Introduce (TGen) in Phoenix.

Baral is the architect of a textbook on knowledge representation and explanation. His research involves studying biologists’ schooling of cell behavior, looking at chamber signaling and gene-protein interactions and examining individual kinds of reasoning used for determining the side effects of drugs, explaining deviant cell behavior and designing knock out therapy.