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 @ May 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This past weekend was incredibly busy, not only with the launch of the CIFellows Project, but also with a full slate of CMU commencement activities. Jeffrey Baker did a nice job taking a GigaPan photo of the event. I made some attempts to get the faculty members sitting around me to ham it up when […]
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 @ May 5, 2009 # 3 Comments
In his Last Lecture, Randy Pausch explained that one of his childhood dreams was to be Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk. Well, J.J. Abrams, the director of the new Star Trek movie coming out this week, was impressed enough with this wish that he invited Randy to make an appearance in the movie. Randy […]
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 @ April 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A quick special announcement of a conference being held on campus tomorrow:
ACH SIGBOVIK 2009: April 5th, 1pm, Scaife 125
The Association for Computational Heresy Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is delighted to present the Third Annual Intercalary Workshop about Symposium on Robot Dance Party of Conference in Celebration of Harry Q. Bovik’s (2^6)th birthday.
Join […]
Peter Lee @ April 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
OK, I admit it. During the past two weeks I got in a bit over my head, time-wise. But, I’ve gotten through it, and I’m feeling pretty satisfied with the results.
As I reported here on March 18, I was in Korea visiting the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, where I gave a lecture […]
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 @ 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. […]