Peter Lee @ July 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An official communication from Carnegie Mellon University’s President, Jared Cohon:
Dear Colleagues:
It is with great sadness that I inform you that our dear friend and colleague Randy Pausch passed away today, July 25, after a brave struggle against pancreatic cancer.
Randy captured the minds and hearts of millions worldwide with his Carnegie Mellon lecture, “Really Achieving Your […]
Peter Lee @ July 25, 2008 # One Comment
Randy Pausch passed away this morning, after a brilliant and inspiring battle with pancreatic cancer. Many obituaries will be written today. In fact, ABC News has already published one. Although the news is sad, Randy inspired millions of people and accomplished an amazing amount during his last months. He remained utterly devoted to his family […]
Peter Lee @ July 21, 2008 # One Comment
RoboCup 2008 in Suzhou, China, has just wrapped up, and once again Manuela Veloso and CMU have made a great showing.
In the small-size robot competition, our defending champion team (both 2006 and 2007), CMDragons, took 2nd place. Manuela reports that the final against PlasmaZ from Thailand was a fantastic game, played extremely well by both […]
Peter Lee @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
More and more conferences are giving “test of time” awards, to recognize research publications from ten or more years ago that have proven to be truly seminal. The ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning) and COLT (Annual Conference on Learning Theory) conferences, two of the major symposia in the areas of machine learning and learning […]
Peter Lee @ July 13, 2008 # One Comment
“Computer science enrollments continue to decline.”
This has been a popular tag line for lots of press articles on the computing field. But is it true? Here at Carnegie Mellon we’ve been insulated from the major swings in enrollments that our peers have been experiencing. Our undergraduate program caps its enrollment at 130 new freshmen each […]
Peter Lee @ July 9, 2008 # One Comment
The construction of our future home, the Gates Hillman Center, continues to go well. Here is current snapshot, taken from the Purnell Center loading dock, looking back towards Wean Hall:
The main steel structure you see here is the Gates Center, which looks to me to have about half of its steel erected. The Hillman Center […]
Peter Lee @ June 26, 2008 # 2 Comments
“What do we need to do to make STEM (science, technology, engineering and technology) education sexy again?”
This was one of the questions posed by Senator Barack Obama this morning to a remarkably high-powered group of panelists at an economic summit, held in the Weigand gymnasium at Carnegie Mellon University this morning. The 2-hour summit focused […]
Peter Lee @ June 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
John Foley, Editor of InformationWeek, did a piece on the Gates-Hillman Center, set to open in July 2009. The piece is based entirely on an interview with Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon Chair of Computer Science, creator of robosoccer, and a key member of the Gates-Hillman Center building committee.
Check out the interview on […]
Peter Lee @ June 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m on my way back from San Francisco, where a large contingent of CMU faculty and students (and assorted friends and family members) was attending the gala ACM awards banquet. The ACM does a very nice job with this black-tie affair, and last night was a particularly nice one for CMU.
The main attraction was the […]
Peter Lee @ June 21, 2008 # One Comment
Chuck Thorpe, Dean of CMU-Qatar, and Majd Sakr, Associate Teaching Professor at CMU-Qatar, completed the Race Across America yesterday. This means they rode bicycles, relay-style, from the Oceanside, California to Annapolis, Maryland. Joining Chuck and Majd were Doug Thorpe (Chuck’s brother) and Doug Leamon. Together, they formed Team2600. The team completed the feat in just […]