Peter Lee @ December 21, 2008 # 4 Comments
The semester is over, but there is still enough work to do on various proposals, recommendation letters, and think pieces that I am in my office instead of at home watching the Steelers game. (Probably a good thing, since the Steelers got beaten pretty badly.) Some nice surprises, though. My assistant, Diana Hyde, stopped in […]
Peter Lee @ December 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s Black Friday, our end-of-semester evaluation of the Computer Science Ph.D. students here at Carnegie Mellon. All of the faculty involved in advising Ph.D. students in our program gather together for two full days of meetings, to discuss the progress of each student — about 160 of them, more or less. As a group, we […]
Peter Lee @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bill Buxton (Microsoft Research) has a nice opinion piece in the current issue of BusinessWeek entitled, “The Price of Forgoing Basic Research“. He argues forcefully for greater investment in basic research, explaining that “the return on investment goes down as the R&D budget shifts from basic to applied research”. Besides the problem of corporations abandoning […]
Peter Lee @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The construction on our new building, the Gates Hillman Complex (GHC), has been moving along well. As we speak, the building is still set to open in late-summer 2009. Here is a current webcam picture, showing GHC in all of its 9-floor glory:
This picture shows the south and east-facing walls of the Gates Center. Off […]
Peter Lee @ December 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Two papers by Carnegie Mellon researchers were recognized as being among the most important contributions in operating systems research. The recognition, called the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, is announced annually at one of the two major symposia in OS research, either SOSP or OSDI, to the most influential peer-reviewed research papers that appeared at […]
Peter Lee @ December 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The last two weeks have been incredibly busy. With all of the end-of-semester activities, proposal deadlines, and so on, it’s been two weeks since I last made an entry here — I think this is CSDiary’s longest “dead” period this year! A lot has been happening, though. So now that things are getting back to […]
Peter Lee @ December 2, 2008 # One Comment
Just seen on the CRA Computing Research Policy Blog, but worth repeating here. Shown at the 26th Army Science Conference, this video explains the importance of basic long-term research to the national defense.