Peter Lee @ March 18, 2009 # 7 Comments
I’ve just returned from a visit to KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in Daejeon, South Korea. As far as “big government bets” go, KAIST has been an unabashed success. KAIST alumni dominate the upper echelons of virtually all of Korea’s tech companies. It is no exaggeration to say that KAIST made […]
Peter Lee @ March 17, 2009 # 5 Comments
Using an algorithm developed by a CMU computer science research team, a chain of 10 (and counting) kidney transplants has been made possible. The team consists of faculty members Tuomas Sandholm and Avrim Blum, and PhD student David Abraham. A press release is available here.
So-called paired swaps, where two live kidney donors swap recipients in […]
Peter Lee @ March 17, 2009 # 11 Comments
The latest edition of the CRA Taulbee Report has just been released, and it confirms what we have been seeing in our CS application trends here at CMU and other schools: enrollments are up, and up pretty significantly. The CRA’s official press release is available here. The NY Times did an article on this as […]
Peter Lee @ March 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
“Isn’t it great to have a President who cares about science?” This was a statement made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt to a group of academics and industry leaders a few weeks ago. Indeed, there has been a huge amount of activity in Washington lately, as large chunks of the government’s policies on science and […]
Peter Lee @ March 11, 2009 # One Comment
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is one of the most important advocacy organizations for computing research. It promotes the cause of computing research to policymakers and other organizations interested in science policy, innovation policy, computing research, and STEM education. Nearly every research computing department and lab in the nation (plus some in Canada and Mexico) […]
Peter Lee @ March 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award has been given to CMU Computer Science Professor Manuela Veloso. The award is given at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and is intended to “recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field.” CMU has done very well with this award, […]
Peter Lee @ March 9, 2009 # 6 Comments
The Claytronics Project has hit Slashdot (again) today. See the post by clicking here. Jason Campbell (Intel Research Pittsburgh) is quoted in the article, and some of the comments that have been posted have been interesting.
I’ve been collaborating with several people on the problem of how to write programs for Claytronics systems. Two people who […]
Peter Lee @ March 9, 2009 # 3 Comments
We’ll have to wait for the new Taulbee Survey results to come out (any day now), but there are a few signs here and there that CS enrollments are on the upswing. We just had our annual department Open House event, where we invite students who have just been admitted to our PhD program. The […]
Peter Lee @ March 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m way overdue for a new entry on this blog.
The past two weeks have been pretty crazy. I attended the Computing Leadership Summit and the CRA Board meeting in DC; made a trip to Florida with Luis von Ahn to visit with donors; coauthored and submitted two research papers and two proposals; wrote one research […]