Peter Lee @ March 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Something very big is happening. Interest in data-intensive scalable computing (DISC), in both research and industry practice, is taking off. The first Hadoop Summit was hosted yesterday by Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara. (Hadoop is the open-source suite of software packages for “map-reduce” style distributed computing.) The Summit had been planned originally as a workshop […]
Peter Lee @ March 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Sheep Vortex premiere last night was a nice affair. Seeing Spot (or, um, his avatar) there and having a chance to chat was really great. Wandering around in the swirling “vortex” of broken shards of electric sheep was pleasant, even if the performance and resolution of SecondLife’s rendering processes left much to be desired. […]
Peter Lee @ March 13, 2008 # One Comment
Tonight, check it out! Scott Draves will have a premiere of one of his latest artworks, Sheep Vortex, with 3D design by Somatika Xiao, at the Node Zero Gallery in SecondLife, tonight (March 13, 2008) at 6pm-9pm PST. This is based on his Electric Sheep, which is now featured in the permanent online collection […]
Peter Lee @ March 3, 2008 # One Comment
Last summer, Scott Fahlman was subjected to a huge flurry of worldwide media attention, for the 25th anniversary of his invention of the emoticon :-). While everyone (especially Scott), felt a bit sheepish about the amount of press coverage this was getting, at some point we all just had to give in to it and […]
Peter Lee @ February 22, 2008 # 2 Comments
Bill Gates visited CMU yesterday, the last stop on his “farewell tour” as he steps down from Microsoft and joins as a full-time member of the Gates Foundation. I have to say there was a genuinely warm-and-fuzzy feeling on this visit. Maybe it was because of Gates’ generosity when he visited four years ago (CMU […]
Peter Lee @ February 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m just finishing a visit to UCSD. Yesterday, I gave a distinguished lecture in their CS department entitled, Ten Years of Certified Code. In recent years, UCSD has been building up a very nice faculty in areas related to programming languages, program analysis, verification, and security (both systems security and language-based security). There was a […]
Peter Lee @ February 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A nice photo of three (active) CMU Turing Award winners. From left to right, Raj Reddy, Ed Clarke, and Manuel Blum.
Peter Lee @ January 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Well, my third article today. As you can see, I am just emerging from a fairly hectic week, typical of what happens after returning from a two-week trip.
Last week I described a little bit about my trip to Taiwan, as part of a research collaboration there. During that trip, I was asked to join […]
Peter Lee @ December 14, 2007 # One Comment
It’s Black Friday.
No, this isn’t the shopping frenzy after Thanksgiving day. This is the end-of-semester evaluation of the Computer Science Ph.D. students. All of the faculty involved in advising Ph.D. students in our program gather together for a full day meeting, to discuss in detail the progress of each student — about 160 of them, […]
Peter Lee @ December 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A few years ago I was lucky enough to attend a Moot Corp Competition (with a CMU team winning!). This is among the nation’s premier business start-up competitions, with one of the highlights being a series of rapid-fire “elevator pitches” for new start-ups. One of the great things about Moot Corp, besides being fun, is […]