Peter Lee @ January 7, 2009 # 2 Comments
Last Sunday I wrote about the computational neuroscience work by Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell. Well, the CBS 60 Minutes feature was really quite interesting. In the segment, one of the staff members for the 60 Minutes crew was shown 10 words while her brain was scanned via MRI. When these 10 words were shown […]
Peter Lee @ January 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This news has been on the SCS web page for about a week already, but still worth a mention here:
Last year the online edition of the Times of London did a story on the Gigapan camera system, developed by Illah Nourbakhsh and Randy Sargent. Well the Times of London has just reported that this story […]
Peter Lee @ January 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m writing this from Osaka, Japan, where I am waiting for the continuation of my flight to Taipei, Taiwan, for a meeting of the Taiwan-CMU-Berkeley iCAST research collaboration. Ed Clarke, Christos Faloutsos, Adrian Perrig, Tsuhan Chen, and others will also be in attendance, so I’m looking forward to some good talk and hallway discussions.
Anyway, sitting […]
Peter Lee @ January 4, 2009 # One Comment
Research on machine learning — that is, machines that improve with experience — has made astounding progress over the past decade or so. Such research is very mathematical and often theoretical in nature, which makes it hard for the general public (including policymakers thinking about funding priorities and high school students trying to decide a […]
Peter Lee @ January 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Council of the Computing Community Consortium, aka the CCC Council, is seeking nominations for new members. Nominations (including self-nominations) are due on January 14, 2009 and can be emailed to Eric Grimson, Sarita Adve, or Andrew Chien.
So, what is the CCC? It is an organization that helps the research community develop new research opportunities […]