News Brief: Two Carnegie Mellon Professors Elected AAAS Fellows
Contacts: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu
Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu
PITTSBURGH—Two 黑料社区 faculty members, and have been named Fellows of the (AAAS). AAAS Fellows are elected by their peers in recognition of the recipients’ distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
Justine Cassell, the Charles M. Geschke Director of the in the , is being honored “for her distinguished contributions to the field of computer science, particularly for new computational models of human behavior and resulting technologies, including the Embodied Conversational Agent.”
Chien Ho, Alumni Professor of and Director of the Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research in the , is being recognized “for pioneering the use of magnetic resonance to unravel allosteric mechanisms of hemoglobin, and to develop a non-invasive method to monitor immune responses in vivo.”
The 2012 class of 702 fellows will be recognized during the AAAS Fellows Forum held on February 16 at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.