Peter Lee @ January 21, 2009 # 7 Comments
Well, my attempts to live-blog from the Inauguration fizzled. The signal strength was usually very good but actually getting bits transmitted reliably from my iPhone was another matter. This hardly mattered, though. Today was wonderful. I realize it sounds corny, but today was a day that made me proud of my country and especially proud […]
Peter Lee @ January 19, 2009 # 3 Comments
I’m in Falls Church, Virginia, for a short visit with my father and stepmother. This is a historic time to be in the Washington DC area, of course. Some very, very good people managed to provide me with tickets for the inauguration. (I’m forever grateful! I know it wasn’t easy.) As a result, I’ll be […]
Peter Lee @ January 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’ve just landed in Detroit, just one more short hop to get home. The visit to Taipei was both productive and fun. Lots of CMU faculty members were there: Lujo Bauer, Ed Clarke, Christos Faloutsos, Virgil Gligor, and Adrian Perrig. All gave great talks at the iCAST symposium and held up well for the review […]
Peter Lee @ January 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m writing this from Osaka, Japan, where I am waiting for the continuation of my flight to Taipei, Taiwan, for a meeting of the Taiwan-CMU-Berkeley iCAST research collaboration. Ed Clarke, Christos Faloutsos, Adrian Perrig, Tsuhan Chen, and others will also be in attendance, so I’m looking forward to some good talk and hallway discussions.
Anyway, sitting […]
Peter Lee @ December 21, 2008 # 4 Comments
The semester is over, but there is still enough work to do on various proposals, recommendation letters, and think pieces that I am in my office instead of at home watching the Steelers game. (Probably a good thing, since the Steelers got beaten pretty badly.) Some nice surprises, though. My assistant, Diana Hyde, stopped in […]
Peter Lee @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The construction on our new building, the Gates Hillman Complex (GHC), has been moving along well. As we speak, the building is still set to open in late-summer 2009. Here is a current webcam picture, showing GHC in all of its 9-floor glory:
This picture shows the south and east-facing walls of the Gates Center. Off […]
Peter Lee @ November 30, 2008 # 5 Comments
Today is my birthday, something that is almost impossible to forget nowadays due to Facebook announcing it to my entire circle of online friends. ;-)
Last year I wrote about the very nice painting that Carlos Guestrin gave me. Very cool. This year is a bit, well, geekier. My wife and son treated me to the […]
Peter Lee @ November 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A rare weekend home for me, and very little homework for my son (age 11). We played some LittleBigPlanet, the new PS3 game from Media Molecule. Wow! I didn’t realize the progress on the latest console games. The photo-realism and physics are beyond anything I’ve seen before. A short video from MM’s web site appears […]
Peter Lee @ November 13, 2008 # 3 Comments
My travel schedule has been a little bit crazy lately, with one or two trips a week. It’s easy to complain about the availability of flights in and out of Pittsburgh, but overall it is still just wonderful how easy it is to get to key meeting centers. Last week I was in Chicago, a […]
Peter Lee @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m writing today from Palo Alto, where I am attending a meeting of the CCC Council. The CCC is the Computing Community Consortium, an organization started by the CRA about a year ago. Its purpose is to help researchers who want to develop and mobilize the community around new research initiatives. You can read more […]