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 […]
Peter Lee @ June 27, 2009 # 3 Comments
I’ve been pretty busy for the past couple of months, in part because of my involvement as the PI for the CCC’s Computing Innovation Fellows Project. The response to this new program has been tremendous, with 526 applications and over 1,200 prospective mentors announcing their interest in hosting a CIFellow.
You can read more about the […]
Peter Lee @ June 19, 2009 # 4 Comments
The newly established ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award recognizes an educator who has “made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software engineering with his/her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, researcher, author, and/or policy maker.” Well, last month, in an absolutely wonderful gesture by the software engineering community, Nico Habermann was named, posthumously, […]
Peter Lee @ June 18, 2009 # 3 Comments
Today I attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, my first as its Chair. In case you don’t know, the CRA does a lot to promote the cause of computing research, including educating policymakers, building community, developing human resources, and providing information useful to computing research organizations all across […]
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 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 @ May 3, 2009 # One Comment
I am truly pleased to announce that Venkatesan Guruswami will be joining the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department, effective July 1, 2009. One of the most important researchers in theoretical computer science today, Venkat’s work connects with a large number of people here, including core theorists (such as Manuel Blum, Steven Rudich, […]
Peter Lee @ April 29, 2009 # One Comment
An announcement sent out earlier today by Randy Bryant, Dean of the CMU School of Computer Science:
I’m pleased to announce that Tom Mitchell, the Fredkin Professor of AI and Machine Learning, has been named a University Professor. As stated by the Faculty Handbook: “The rank of University Professor is the highest one at Carnegie Mellon […]