Peter Lee @ January 19, 2009 # 3 Comments
I’m in Falls Church, Virginia, for a short visit with my father and stepmother. This is a historic time to be in the Washington DC area, of course. Some very, very good people managed to provide me with tickets for the inauguration. (I’m forever grateful! I know it wasn’t easy.) As a result, I’ll be […]
Peter Lee @ December 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s Black Friday, our end-of-semester evaluation of the Computer Science Ph.D. students here at Carnegie Mellon. All of the faculty involved in advising Ph.D. students in our program gather together for two full days of meetings, to discuss the progress of each student — about 160 of them, more or less. As a group, we […]
Peter Lee @ October 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The week (and weekend) of homecoming events has wrapped up. It was really great to see so many people coming to town for this. I posted earlier about some of them. Friday was another day of meetings with alumni, starting with CS PhD grad and the Founder and CTO of Juniper Networks, Pradeep Sindhu. We […]
Peter Lee @ October 25, 2008 # One Comment
As part of homecoming week in the School of Computer Science, we had a special distinguished lecture by Ed Clarke, winner of this year’s ACM Turing Award, the highest honor given by the computing research community. The award was announced back in February and the CS faculty were able to get a preview of the […]
Peter Lee @ October 23, 2008 # 2 Comments
It’s homecoming week. In terms of alumni visits, homecoming at CMU traditionally has been in the shadow of Spring Carnival, but in recent years the number of alumni we’ve been seeing for both events has really increased a lot. So, it’s been incredibly busy but also tons of fun to see old friends back on […]
Peter Lee @ October 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m horribly late with this, but a quick mention of a really nice event we had last Friday night, our annual “login ball”. This is a (semi-formal) party we have each fall term to welcome the new PhD students, faculty, visitors, and postdocs to the Computer Science Department. We had a great turnout, with about […]
Peter Lee @ September 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Today a “topping off” ceremony was held on the construction site of the Gates Hillman Center, the future home of the Computer Science Department and the Machine Learning Department. I was in a meeting at DARPA today and thus had to miss the ceremony. Fortunately, I was able to watch the topping off — the […]
Peter Lee @ September 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The steel is almost all up on the Gates Hillman Center, the future home for the Computer Science Department and the Machine Learning Department. To see a 517-megapixel gigapan picture of the west wall, check out http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9585. On the left-hand side is the Hillman Center, and the main structure in the center and right is […]
Peter Lee @ September 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This afternoon (Monday, September 22, 2008) the Carnegie Mellon campus held a memorial service in honor of Randy Pausch. The event took place in a packed University Center, with simulcasts to other campus locations and a webcast on abcnews.com. Jai Pausch was present for the service, which was joined also by dozens of Randy’s friends […]
Peter Lee @ September 22, 2008 # One Comment
Well, I’m a few days late, but: Happy Birthday, Smiley! :-)
Friday, September 19, 2008, was the 26th birthday of the smiley emoticon :-) as well as smiley’s evil twin, frowny :-(. Used first by Scott Fahlman as a faculty member in the Computer Science Department on September 19, 1982, the emoticon has become one of […]