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 […]
Peter Lee @ November 3, 2007 # 2 Comments
No matter how jetlagged you might be, no matter what time zone your body thinks it should be in, getting up before dawn always is a struggle for me. So it was this morning, as we headed out for the DARPA Urban Challenge.
A lot of people from CMU are here. An incomplete list: […]
Peter Lee @ October 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The trend was barely detectable one or two years ago, but now is unmistakable: functional programming is making a big comeback. Actually, saying it this way is grossly unfair, because the research community in and around functional programming, despite being underfunded in the US, has continued to be a vibrant one. The […]
Peter Lee @ October 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Internet, the powergrid, and the telephone system. These are examples of critical infrastructure that are based on large-scale distributed systems. These systems have been painstakingly engineered at great effort and expense to accomplish something that is well known to be extremely difficult: to get a very large collection — or “ensemble” — of computing […]
Peter Lee @ September 26, 2007 # 7 Comments
The circumstances surrounding Randy Pausch have been both remarkable and moving. Randy’s talk in the university’s Journeys Lecture Series (formerly the “Last Lecture Series” — a most fitting venue) was watched live by hundreds of people on campus and thousands all over the world. The video has been downloaded by countless numbers. […]