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Women Set New Benchmark in Computer Science “Making” CMU’S NEWS SOURCE FOR FACULTY & STAFF 9/14 ISSUE Class of 2018: Women Set New Benchmark in Computer Science n Byron Spice While the number of women majoring in computer science at Carnegie Mellon has long exceeded national averages, this year’s incoming class has set a new benchmark for the university’s School of Computer Science (SCS). About 41 percent, 56 of the 138 in- coming SCS undergraduates, are women, surpassing the previous high-water mark of nearly 40 percent 14 years ago. Incoming first-year student Rachel Gu brings with her a fascination with artificial intelligence that grew from watching Japanese anime series and reading manga, which are Japanese comics. “I chose CMU after taking the pre- college program last summer because I loved not only the computer science program but also the faculty and current students,” Gu said. “The CMU students quickly offered to help me whenever PHOTO BY KEN ANDREYO PHOTO BY NEIL RICHMOND I struggled, and the staff and teacher’s C O M PU te R S C I E N ce P RO fe SSOR L E NOR E B LU M ( BA ck RO W , T HIR D F RO M RI G H T ) POS E S W I T H F IRS T - Y E AR S T U de N T S AT T H E assistants were eager to answer questions W O me N @SCS meet IN G IN LAte A U G US T . S T U de N T S IN T H E BA ck RO W AR E ( L - R ) A NISHA P A dwek AR , C HRIS T IN E L ee , J I E L I , and help solve technical issues.” M AUNI K A A tm A K URI , A BHY V Y T H ee S W ARAN , S U mme R K I TAHARA AN D A SRA M AH M OO D . I N T H E F RON T RO W AR E ( L - R ) J E NNI fe R C ON T INU ed ON PA ge E I G H T C HOU AN D M AI T R E Y ee J OSHI . W O me N @SCS IS AN OR G ANIZAT ION T HAT SUPPOR T S OPPOR T UNI T I E S F OR W O me N IN C O M PU te R S C I E N ce . “Making” Lifting the Burden of Brain Disorders Connections n Piper Staff a better understanding of the brain’s Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, structure and function — why we do the China; the Indian Institute of Science in Understanding how the brain works is Hunt Library Takes things we do — and to create new tools Bangalore; Oxford University and the one of the toughest puzzles left to solve. to accelerate discovery and reduce the University of Warwick in the U.K.; and Leap Toward Modern And it can’t happen soon enough. Con- burden of brain disorders. the University of Pittsburgh. sider these facts: Learning Commons “This is the right time, and this is the As part of the launch event, CMU If you’re lucky enough to reach right place,” Tom Insel, director of the faculty members Alison Barth, Marlene n Kelly Saavedra age 85, you have a 50 percent chance of National Institute of Mental Health, said Behrmann and Tom Mitchell participated developing Alzheimer’s disease. Sixteen Hunt Library has been a collaborative during his keynote address at the pro- in a panel discussion. million Americans per year are known to learning hub since it was built in 1961. gram launch. “I think weʼve found that Mitchell, the E. Fredkin Univer- suffer major depression. One in 68 U.S. This year, new design studios and lab sweet spot — it doesn't happen all that sity Professor and head of the Machine children annually are diagnosed with an spaces are taking that collaborative often — between the world of academics Learning Department who has conducted autism spectrum disorder. experience to the next level, as Hunt and the world of public policy, and hope- research on how the brain processes lan- That’s just some of the human cost becomes host to the university’s Inte- fully the world of financing.” guage, said brain science is data-starved. of not understanding how the brain grative Design, Arts and Technology CMU’s BrainHub partners include C ON T INU ed ON PA ge NIN E works. The economic costs are also stag- program (IDeATe). gering. Addiction, alcoholism, mental The library has reconfigured its main illnesses, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s floor and lower level to support students cost the U.S. $1.1 trillion annually. The and faculty working together across global price tag? Five trillion dollars. disciplines in IDeATe’s “maker” experi- To help stem the epidemic, Carnegie ences that combine arts and technology Mellon has launched BrainHubSM, a through 30 new studio-based courses. global research initiative that will bring The program builds on decades of together CMU’s strengths in computer CMU’s success in the arts and technol- science, neuroscience, psychology and ogy to facilitate collaborative learning engineering. experiences for students from any The initiative aims to help develop C ON T INU ed ON PA ge te N O NE Effort in Efficiency Workday To Streamline HR, Benefits and Payroll Processes n Bruce Gerson The days of completing green paper website. “When it became clear time sheets, manually keeping track of that the current systems could not your PTO and remembering yet another keep up with the changing needs password to view your pay stub are of the university, we explored new gladly coming to an end. options. Workday will provide us a Workday, a web-based, human HR/Payroll system agile enough to resources (HR), benefits and payroll support the needs of a 21st century management system that provides em- university.” ployees and managers with the infor- mation they need, is in the final stages of its campus-wide rollout. Workday deployment is set for late December 2014, with the first payroll to be run in Workday in January 2015. Workday will bring payroll in- house and consolidate several manual spreadsheets and information and pro- cessing systems — some of which were created and developed at Carnegie Mellon more than 20 years ago. The systems are the HR Information System (HRIS), the HR Employee Module (HREM), HR Connection, the Talent Management System (TMS), the Pay- Workday, which has been global community and our employees U SIN G W OR kd AY , em PLOY ee S W ILL B E ABL E roll Roster System (PRS) and ADP for adopted by many state governments, don’t all work in Pittsburgh. We need a T O R ec OR D T H E IR W OR K HOURS , VI ew T H E IR Payroll. Green time sheets and Excel businesses and universities, including system that allows us to serve all of our PAY SLIPS , M A ke C HAN ge S T O T H E IR H E ALT H spreadsheets for PTO requests and Brown, Cornell, Chicago, Georgetown, employees. The new functionality for B E N ef I T S AN D R E QU E S T PTO. tracking of faculty appointment, promo- Miami, Rochester, USC and Yale, will faculty appointments will allow us to tion and tenure also will be replaced by provide faculty, staff and student work- use one system to track faculty.” Center will be a one-stop shop where Workday. ers with a more efficient way to navigate Like Huth, Cheryl Wehrer, associ- CMU employees can get answers to “Software generally does not age their inquiries related to HR benefits and gracefully. What may have begun as “M O VING FR om O UR CURREN T HRIS to W O RKDAY IS ANAL O G O US to payroll transactions. The CMUWorks an elegant design when the system was Service Center, which consists of about first conceived 25 years ago, today G O ING FR om A 1970 S R otARY P H O NE to T HE LAT ES T S M ARtp H O NE 20 employees, will debut in late limits what you can realistically ac- IN O NE FELL SW oop .” — C HERYL W EHRER December. complish,” says CMU Chief Informa- McCarl, who has learned how to tion Officer Steve Huth on the Workday the HR benefits and payroll aspects of ate director of Finance and Adminis- use the Workday system, thinks people their life at CMU. tration in the Robotics Institute who will get the hang of it. Employees will be able to record has been a member of the CMUWorks “Parts of Workday are very intuitive their work hours, view their pay slips, Campus Team and Steering Committee, but others are a bit tricky. Some people review and update their payroll infor- says Workday will bring Carnegie Mel- will say that it is complicated. [But] we mation, make changes to their health lon’s HR systems into the 21st century. do ‘complicated’ every day and just as benefits and request PTO. “Moving from our current HRIS to we had to learn to use Oracle, we will PIPER Supervisors will receive notification Workday is analogous to going from a learn to use this system,” McCarl said. 9/14 Issue of the time entry approval and PTO re- 1970s rotary phone to the latest smart- Wehrer also has tested the system P UBLISHER Ken Walters quest via email from Workday and will phone in one fell swoop.
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