Peter Lee @ February 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I was planning to wait another week before blogging about this, but it looks like things are starting to fill up, so…
On March 7-9, Carnegie Mellon will be hosting the ART AND CODE symposium, which is described as “a symposium on programming environments for artists, young people, and the rest of us.” Professor of Art […]
Peter Lee @ February 23, 2009 # 3 Comments
What is “computational thinking”?
I think I first heard Jeannette Wing use the term back around the time that the Internet bubble burst, and of course we’ve become accustomed to using it ever since. A couple of years ago, the Center for Computational Thinking was founded (by Jeannette, with support from Microsoft), to develop the concept. […]
Peter Lee @ February 21, 2009 # 4 Comments
Last week, the New York Times published an article by John Markoff, entitled, “Do We Need a New Internet?” I’ve written a brief commentary about this for the CCC blog. You can read it here.
Peter Lee @ February 18, 2009 # 2 Comments
President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 today, a move that is critically important for computing research.
Indeed, this economic stimulus bill is absolutely critical for science, providing $7B in supplemental research funding that will lead to new discoveries and, ultimately, new innovations and economic growth. The computing research community is […]
Peter Lee @ February 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Two Carnegie Mellon Computer Science professors, Ryan O’Donnell and Luis von Ahn, have been awarded 2009 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships. Three CMU CS alumni also won fellowships. They are Shuchi Chawla (a Ph.D. alumnus now on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin), Eugene Ng (also a Ph.D. alumnus, a faculty member at Rice University), […]
Peter Lee @ February 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The end of the Tether era at DARPA has generated a lot of speculation about Tether’s successor — though nothing yet that seems all that credible. But what about DARPA itself in the post-Tether era? Randy Katz and I gave some of our thoughts on “Re-envisioning DARPA,” but I thought it might be worth a […]
Peter Lee @ February 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This one is for our alumni and other friends who haven’t been on campus for a while.
During one of the celebrations in honor of Ed Clarke’s winning of the ACM Turing Award, portraits of Ed and some of the previous CMU Turing winners (plus Turing himself :-) were hung in the Newell Simon Hall atrium:
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Peter Lee @ February 9, 2009 # 4 Comments
A quick news flash: Emails are floating around indicating that Tony Tether’s tenure as the Director of DARPA will end this month, with the two week notice on February 20. The text of the message:
The Time to Go has Been Settled
As you know, I had said that I was asked to stay on at DARPA […]