Peter Lee @ July 3, 2009 # 3 Comments
Like any research project at CMU Computer Science, the CMU-Intel Claytronics Project publishes lots of papers in research conferences and journals. The project has also gotten more than its fair share of attention in the popular press as well as various blogs and websites. (See the news links on the project’s web page for some […]
Peter Lee @ June 30, 2009 # One Comment
The PBS show Nova scienceNow will have a feature on Luis von Ahn. The show will air for the first time tonight (9pm on WQED here in Pittsburgh). A preview of the show, along with links to audio Q&A with Luis can be accessed here.
Just in case you can’t wait until tonight episode airs, check […]
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 @ May 15, 2009 # 15 Comments
An important opportunity for new computing-related PhDs has just been announced by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). To apply, go to http://cifellows.org. Note that the application deadline is very soon — June 9, 2009.
The nation’s universities and industrial research labs are facing unprecedented budget pressure. The result: there are considerably fewer openings for computing research […]
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 @ March 18, 2009 # 7 Comments
I’ve just returned from a visit to KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in Daejeon, South Korea. As far as “big government bets” go, KAIST has been an unabashed success. KAIST alumni dominate the upper echelons of virtually all of Korea’s tech companies. It is no exaggeration to say that KAIST made […]
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 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 @ January 4, 2009 # One Comment
Research on machine learning — that is, machines that improve with experience — has made astounding progress over the past decade or so. Such research is very mathematical and often theoretical in nature, which makes it hard for the general public (including policymakers thinking about funding priorities and high school students trying to decide a […]