Peter Lee @ June 30, 2009 # One Comment
The PBS show Nova scienceNow will have a feature on Luis von Ahn. The show will air for the first time tonight (9pm on WQED here in Pittsburgh). A preview of the show, along with links to audio Q&A with Luis can be accessed here.
Just in case you can’t wait until tonight episode airs, check […]
Peter Lee @ June 27, 2009 # 3 Comments
I’ve been pretty busy for the past couple of months, in part because of my involvement as the PI for the CCC’s Computing Innovation Fellows Project. The response to this new program has been tremendous, with 526 applications and over 1,200 prospective mentors announcing their interest in hosting a CIFellow.
You can read more about the […]
Peter Lee @ June 26, 2009 # 4 Comments
How much of the technology in Star Trek could become real some day?
This was the question posed to a group of faculty members here at Carnegie Mellon Computer Science recently. Why? Because CMU Drama alumnus, Zach Quinto, starred as the character Spock in the recent Star Trek movie, and so naturally CMU’s media relations people […]
Peter Lee @ June 19, 2009 # 3 Comments
The newly established ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award recognizes an educator who has “made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software engineering with his/her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, researcher, author, and/or policy maker.” Well, last month, in an absolutely wonderful gesture by the software engineering community, Nico Habermann was named, posthumously, […]
Peter Lee @ June 18, 2009 # 2 Comments
Today I attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, my first as its Chair. In case you don’t know, the CRA does a lot to promote the cause of computing research, including educating policymakers, building community, developing human resources, and providing information useful to computing research organizations all across […]
Peter Lee @ June 17, 2009 # 2 Comments
I’ve been feeling pretty guilty about being off the blog for the past month. I do have some excuses, though. Of course, there were the usual paper and proposal deadlines, two distinguished lectures, and a busy season for recruiting faculty and grad students. My PhD students also kept me busier than usual, with one going […]
Peter Lee @ June 16, 2009 # 4 Comments
Last Sunday’s NY Times had an amusing article about people going to book-signings and asking authors to autograph their Kindle ebook readers.
Well, gee, I guess I was a bit of a trend-setter! Over one year ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited CMU to attend our commencement ceremonies. I was lucky enough to be involved in […]