Peter Lee @ October 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It’s just about impossible to be at Carnegie Mellon and not know about Luis von Ahn’s many accomplishments. CAPTCHA, the ESP Game, and reCAPTCHA have created a sensation not only because of their widespread impact and commercial successes, but also because they hint at the possibility of a new field of study, tentatively referred […]
Peter Lee @ October 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The trend was barely detectable one or two years ago, but now is unmistakable: functional programming is making a big comeback. Actually, saying it this way is grossly unfair, because the research community in and around functional programming, despite being underfunded in the US, has continued to be a vibrant one. The […]
Peter Lee @ October 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Internet, the powergrid, and the telephone system. These are examples of critical infrastructure that are based on large-scale distributed systems. These systems have been painstakingly engineered at great effort and expense to accomplish something that is well known to be extremely difficult: to get a very large collection — or “ensemble” — of computing […]
Peter Lee @ October 12, 2007 # 9 Comments
“Given your experiences in Qatar, would your university have the ability — and desire — to help us build a new research university in Saudi Arabia?“
This was the question posed by Dr. Nadhmi Al-Nasr, the interim president of newly founded King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, to President Cohon within the first […]