Peter Lee @ August 22, 2009 # 13 Comments
I’m writing today from Boston, having just wrapped up a week at the annual DARPA ISAT retreat at Woods Hole. It was really an exciting week, with lot of people working hard to imagine the future of computing technology and, in some select cases, turn those dreams into plans for how to make them real.
However, […]
Peter Lee @ July 30, 2009 # 36 Comments
For the past two weeks I’ve had meetings in Washington DC. For various reasons, I decided to drive instead of fly. Well, on my Monday drive down to DC, I was nabbed for speeding. Not the first time that’s happened to me, but still annoying…
Well, while in DC, I had lunch with the staff at […]
Peter Lee @ June 26, 2009 # 4 Comments
How much of the technology in Star Trek could become real some day?
This was the question posed to a group of faculty members here at Carnegie Mellon Computer Science recently. Why? Because CMU Drama alumnus, Zach Quinto, starred as the character Spock in the recent Star Trek movie, and so naturally CMU’s media relations people […]
Peter Lee @ June 19, 2009 # 3 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 17, 2009 # 2 Comments
I’ve been feeling pretty guilty about being off the blog for the past month. I do have some excuses, though. Of course, there were the usual paper and proposal deadlines, two distinguished lectures, and a busy season for recruiting faculty and grad students. My PhD students also kept me busier than usual, with one going […]
Peter Lee @ June 16, 2009 # 4 Comments
Last Sunday’s NY Times had an amusing article about people going to book-signings and asking authors to autograph their Kindle ebook readers.
Well, gee, I guess I was a bit of a trend-setter! Over one year ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited CMU to attend our commencement ceremonies. I was lucky enough to be involved in […]
Peter Lee @ April 22, 2009 # 6 Comments
I’m on board a Delta flight bound for Pittsburgh right now. My curiosity got the best of me and so I plunked down some money (too much, really) to try out the airline’s new-ish inflight wifi service. My first in-flight blog entry! ;-)
It’s been a busy few months, particularly with travels. I’m flying back right […]
Peter Lee @ March 11, 2009 # One Comment
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is one of the most important advocacy organizations for computing research. It promotes the cause of computing research to policymakers and other organizations interested in science policy, innovation policy, computing research, and STEM education. Nearly every research computing department and lab in the nation (plus some in Canada and Mexico) […]
Peter Lee @ March 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m way overdue for a new entry on this blog.
The past two weeks have been pretty crazy. I attended the Computing Leadership Summit and the CRA Board meeting in DC; made a trip to Florida with Luis von Ahn to visit with donors; coauthored and submitted two research papers and two proposals; wrote one research […]
Peter Lee @ February 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This one is for our alumni and other friends who haven’t been on campus for a while.
During one of the celebrations in honor of Ed Clarke’s winning of the ACM Turing Award, portraits of Ed and some of the previous CMU Turing winners (plus Turing himself :-) were hung in the Newell Simon Hall atrium:
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