Peter Lee @ November 29, 2007 # 2 Comments
I had a very nice surprise in my office this week. While I was out, someone snuck in and left behind a painting:
This photo, which I took with my iPhone (no flash), really doesn’t do justice to the painting. It has a beautiful iridescent, “vibrating” quality to it. What really tickles me, though, are the […]
Peter Lee @ November 28, 2007 # One Comment
Well, it’s official: Randy Pausch is a media “phenomenon”. The strongest evidence of this is Randy’s appearance on the Oprah Show last month, where he gave a reprisal of part of his “last lecture” and talked about his condition, his outlook, and the public response to his words. In a few weeks (exact date not […]
Peter Lee @ November 17, 2007 # One Comment
If you are like me and relatively new to the blogosphere, you’ve probably found it hard to figure out which blogs to read. Are some blogs more important than others? What does that mean? My first impulse, and probably yours, too, is to use Google. But simply searching for interesting topics […]
Peter Lee @ November 14, 2007 # 2 Comments
Hadoop, data-intensive supercomputing, computing clouds, M45, Internet-scale computing …
These are just a few of the terms and concepts that are becoming prominent in more and more of the research in computer science, and particularly in the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department. They are part of an emerging shift towards research that involves large amounts […]
Peter Lee @ November 13, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Well, it’s been a learning experience. If you visit this blog (as opposed to reading the articles via a feedreader), you can see that there is a new look-and-feel. There is also a new name for the blog, CSDiary. There are a bunch of URLs that get to the blog, including csdiary.com, […]
Peter Lee @ November 8, 2007 # 3 Comments
Earlier this week I participated in a roundtable event held by OSTP, the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. The event, which involved about 25 people, was organized by Sharon Hays, Deputy Director for Science in OSTP, and co-chaired by John Marburger, the President’s Science Advisor (and Director of OSTP). The other participants […]
Peter Lee @ November 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
If you’ve been to MIT’s still-relatively-new Stata Center, you’ve probably been impressed with the uniqueness of its design. Despite a lot of obvious problems, I’ve always liked it and have found that spending time in the building is a memorable experience. Unfortunately, it appears that visiting the building is better than living in […]
Peter Lee @ November 3, 2007 # 2 Comments
No matter how jetlagged you might be, no matter what time zone your body thinks it should be in, getting up before dawn always is a struggle for me. So it was this morning, as we headed out for the DARPA Urban Challenge.
A lot of people from CMU are here. An incomplete list: […]
Peter Lee @ November 2, 2007 # One Comment
As you may have noticed, I’ve decided to change the title of this blog. I don’t know what the title should be, so as a placeholder I’ve chosen “Ante Conspectum”. (I’ll leave it as an exercise for you to translate the Latin.)
I’m open to suggestions!
Peter Lee @ November 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
If it’s Friday, this must be Victorville. I’m writing to you today from the site of the DARPA Urban Challenge, the premier race for autonomous robots. A report on that tomorrow.
It’s been a whirlwind of travel lately. Before arriving in Victorville, I was in Washington DC for a meeting of the CCC […]