Peter Lee @ October 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The CRA and CCC have launched a new “Computing Research Highlight of the Week” web site. As a matter of practice, we routinely send our press releases to the CRA. However, this web site now allows short, punchy descriptions to be submitted directly by researchers by using a simple web form.
Check out the announcement on […]
Peter Lee @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m writing today from Palo Alto, where I am attending a meeting of the CCC Council. The CCC is the Computing Community Consortium, an organization started by the CRA about a year ago. Its purpose is to help researchers who want to develop and mobilize the community around new research initiatives. You can read more […]
Peter Lee @ October 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The week (and weekend) of homecoming events has wrapped up. It was really great to see so many people coming to town for this. I posted earlier about some of them. Friday was another day of meetings with alumni, starting with CS PhD grad and the Founder and CTO of Juniper Networks, Pradeep Sindhu. We […]
Peter Lee @ October 25, 2008 # One Comment
As part of homecoming week in the School of Computer Science, we had a special distinguished lecture by Ed Clarke, winner of this year’s ACM Turing Award, the highest honor given by the computing research community. The award was announced back in February and the CS faculty were able to get a preview of the […]
Peter Lee @ October 23, 2008 # One Comment
A very nice article in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on the naming of Carlos Guestrin to the Popular Science “Brillliant 10″. This one does a nice job of explaining the kind of research Carlos does, mentioning his “cascades model” and its application to rating the most important blogs.
Peter Lee @ October 23, 2008 # 2 Comments
It’s homecoming week. In terms of alumni visits, homecoming at CMU traditionally has been in the shadow of Spring Carnival, but in recent years the number of alumni we’ve been seeing for both events has really increased a lot. So, it’s been incredibly busy but also tons of fun to see old friends back on […]
Peter Lee @ October 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I’ve been beta-testing the Gigapan system for taking large panoramic photos. See, for example, this recent 410Mpixel image of the Gates Hillman Center. Sports Illustrated has been taking some really great Gigapan photos, for example this beautiful shot of a packed Yankee Stadium.
Well, […]
Peter Lee @ October 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m horribly late with this, but a quick mention of a really nice event we had last Friday night, our annual “login ball”. This is a (semi-formal) party we have each fall term to welcome the new PhD students, faculty, visitors, and postdocs to the Computer Science Department. We had a great turnout, with about […]
Peter Lee @ October 22, 2008 # 2 Comments
The Alice Project, which was started by Randy Pausch, is a few weeks into its alpha test of the 3.0 version of the Alice system. This is the version that will incorporate the technology of The Sims, essentially enabling students to build Sims-inhabited interactive virtual worlds while learning Java programming. There are special “Alice sections” […]
Peter Lee @ October 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind lately, with four trips in the last couple of weeks. Right now I’m in Tucson, Arizona for a meeting with the data management team of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). There are interesting tidbits to report from each of these events, which I’ll try to do in […]