Peter Lee @ July 30, 2009 # 36 Comments
For the past two weeks I’ve had meetings in Washington DC. For various reasons, I decided to drive instead of fly. Well, on my Monday drive down to DC, I was nabbed for speeding. Not the first time that’s happened to me, but still annoying…
Well, while in DC, I had lunch with the staff at […]
Peter Lee @ July 10, 2009 # 6 Comments
Carlos Guestrin has just been given the highest honor bestowed by the US government for early-career scientists and engineers, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). One of just 100 so named, Carlos will have the opportunity to meet President Obama to receive the award.
Although he is still early in his career, […]
Peter Lee @ July 6, 2009 # 4 Comments
PBS has posted the video from its Nova ScienceNow segment on Luis von Ahn. Go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0401/04.html if you missed it on television. It’s not every day that one of our faculty members is referred to as a slacker…
Peter Lee @ July 3, 2009 # 3 Comments
Like any research project at CMU Computer Science, the CMU-Intel Claytronics Project publishes lots of papers in research conferences and journals. The project has also gotten more than its fair share of attention in the popular press as well as various blogs and websites. (See the news links on the project’s web page for some […]