Peter Lee @ April 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The CMU team of Tom Conerly (CS sophomore), Celestine Lau (ECE senior), and Alan Pierce (CS sophomore) placed 12th overall, 3rd in North America, in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The final results for the contest, which was completed today in Stockholm, Sweden, can be viewed here.
The team was coached by Computer Science Department […]
Peter Lee @ April 17, 2009 # 2 Comments
It is now well-known that power is a big problem for operating large data centers. Companies pay huge amounts of money for the energy to power and cool their server clusters, and the negative impact on the environment caused by this energy load is surprisingly high. So can we do better? David Andersen and his […]
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 @ March 17, 2009 # 5 Comments
Using an algorithm developed by a CMU computer science research team, a chain of 10 (and counting) kidney transplants has been made possible. The team consists of faculty members Tuomas Sandholm and Avrim Blum, and PhD student David Abraham. A press release is available here.
So-called paired swaps, where two live kidney donors swap recipients in […]
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 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award has been given to CMU Computer Science Professor Manuela Veloso. The award is given at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and is intended to “recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field.” CMU has done very well with this award, […]
Peter Lee @ March 9, 2009 # 7 Comments
The Claytronics Project has hit Slashdot (again) today. See the post by clicking here. Jason Campbell (Intel Research Pittsburgh) is quoted in the article, and some of the comments that have been posted have been interesting.
I’ve been collaborating with several people on the problem of how to write programs for Claytronics systems. Two people who […]
Peter Lee @ February 21, 2009 # 4 Comments
Last week, the New York Times published an article by John Markoff, entitled, “Do We Need a New Internet?” I’ve written a brief commentary about this for the CCC blog. You can read it here.
Peter Lee @ February 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Two Carnegie Mellon Computer Science professors, Ryan O’Donnell and Luis von Ahn, have been awarded 2009 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships. Three CMU CS alumni also won fellowships. They are Shuchi Chawla (a Ph.D. alumnus now on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin), Eugene Ng (also a Ph.D. alumnus, a faculty member at Rice University), […]
Peter Lee @ February 9, 2009 # 4 Comments
A quick news flash: Emails are floating around indicating that Tony Tether’s tenure as the Director of DARPA will end this month, with the two week notice on February 20. The text of the message:
The Time to Go has Been Settled
As you know, I had said that I was asked to stay on at DARPA […]