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These are exciting times to be in the computing profession. Computer Science and Engineering continues to transform every aspect of our society. Progress in most dis-ciplines relies on the progress of computing. Our faculty, students, and alumni have been and continued to be on the vanguard of this transformation. We had a very successful year in 2012. Sofya Raskhodnikova was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor, while Yuan Xie was granted promotion to full profes-sor. Computer Science at Penn State was ranked 5th in the world in citations. Com-puter Science research expenditures was ranked 8th in the country. Our faculty and students are involved in diverse and exciting projects such as analyzing Archbishop Tutu’s genome, designing 3D computer chips, HIV virus, privacy, percep-tion in human and computer vision, crowd scene analysis, health informatics, and quantum computing. As part of the Global Cyber Learning Factory, our students have been working with international students remotely on developing games on android platforms. Our students are in demand in industry. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported that we were ranked 8th in the country by recruiters. We had Tom Mitchell, E. Fredkin University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, deliver the Kelly Distinguished Lecture series. I wish you all an exciting and successful New Year