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  1. Efros and O’Donnell Awarded Okawa Foundation Grants | CSDiary October 15, 2008 @ 5:50 pm

    […] The Okawa grant program focuses primarily on up-and-coming researchers who are conducting basic, long-term research.  Here at CMU, even though they haven’t been here all that long yet, many of us are already in awe of Alexei and Ryan.  Just this past year, Alexei and his student, James Hays, developed one of the most interesting demonstrations of large-scale image mining, IMG2GPS.  This system compares an image against a large database of images in order to estimate its geolocation.  You can check out the latest sample results here.  Last year, you may recall that Alexei was also honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. […]

Efros, Guestrin, and Clarke Win Awards

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This must be the year for awards. They just keep rolling in!

Congratulations to Alyosha, Carlos, and Ed!

Peter Lee @ April 24, 2008

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