Peter Lee @ May 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
One of our media relations people, Byron Spice, just sent me a list of media outlets that have already done stories on gwap.com, the new set of “games with a purpose“:
Slashdot
AP
BBC
MSNBC.com
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
New Scientist
Hope the site holds up under all the load! ;-)
The best Luis quote in these articles? “That is my […]
Peter Lee @ May 14, 2008 # One Comment
William Gibson, the well-known science-fiction author, is famous for saying, “The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.” Well, I always thought this was a great way to describe Luis von Ahn’s idea of “games with a purpose” — capturing the unique capabilities of people when they play games […]
Peter Lee @ April 10, 2008 # One Comment
Way back in September, 2007, at about the time of Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”, I wrote an article about the future of his Alice v3 Project. In the wake of Diane Sawyer’s Primetime special on Randy last night, I thought it a good time to give an update on the project’s status.
As I wrote back […]
Peter Lee @ March 16, 2008 # One Comment
About a year ago, the Physics Department completed a major strategic planning exercise. In their plan, one of the main elements called for hiring as many as 5 new faculty plus several postdocs and graduate fellows, in areas spanning particle physics, computational astrophysics, and cosmology. In response to the plan, our Provost, Mark Kamlet, quipped, […]
Peter Lee @ January 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just brought to my attention by Lenore Blum: Brady Forrest on O’Reilly Radar has an interesting report on the use of reCAPTCHA. To quote:
“…I am glad we are using them and recommend them wholeheartedly.”
More information about reCAPTCHA can be found at http://recaptcha.net/.
Peter Lee @ January 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Boy, am I jetlagged!
After spending the New Year’s Day celebrations in Tokyo with my wife and son, I flew to Taipei for a conference. I just flew back to the USA today, landing this morning in Seattle and then immediately going to Microsoft Research for a series of meetings starting at noon. Whew!
The conference […]
Peter Lee @ January 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Recall my October 12, 2007 article about the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST. While I did not publicly reveal the details of our response to KAUST’s call for proposals, we did in fact submit a preproposal for a KAUST research center. (A bit more detail is available here, if you have […]
Peter Lee @ December 12, 2007 # One Comment
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about “next-generation computing” — computing structures, algorithms, and applications on very large-scale distributed computing platforms, to enable scientific discovery. The amount of activity in this area just keeps growing. This has been particularly intensive lately with Yahoo Research. Randy Bryant pointed out to me, for example, that the […]
Peter Lee @ November 17, 2007 # One Comment
If you are like me and relatively new to the blogosphere, you’ve probably found it hard to figure out which blogs to read. Are some blogs more important than others? What does that mean? My first impulse, and probably yours, too, is to use Google. But simply searching for interesting topics […]
Peter Lee @ November 14, 2007 # 2 Comments
Hadoop, data-intensive supercomputing, computing clouds, M45, Internet-scale computing …
These are just a few of the terms and concepts that are becoming prominent in more and more of the research in computer science, and particularly in the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department. They are part of an emerging shift towards research that involves large amounts […]