Peter Lee @ May 15, 2009 # 16 Comments
An important opportunity for new computing-related PhDs has just been announced by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). To apply, go to http://cifellows.org. Note that the application deadline is very soon — June 9, 2009.
The nation’s universities and industrial research labs are facing unprecedented budget pressure. The result: there are considerably fewer openings for computing research […]
Peter Lee @ May 10, 2009 # 6 Comments
In a week it will be commencement weekend at Carnegie Mellon. The ceremony will hold special interest for the School of Computer Science, since Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be the keynote speaker. But in fact, we’ve already had a bevy of rousing commencement events last week, at our campus in Doha, Qatar. Graduating there […]
Peter Lee @ April 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This is CMU’s Spring Carnival weekend, the biggest annual student event of the year, traditionally the “real” homecoming for alumni. As a racing fan, I love watching the weekend’s buggy races. A “buggy” is a kind of wagon driven by a CMU student around a fast and somewhat treacherous course around Schenley Park. Check out […]
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 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 @ 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. […]