The ICS course provides a programmer's view of how computer systems execute programs, store information, and communicate. It enables students to become more effective programmers, especially in ...

Note: "Margery" is a fictionalized character whose story combines Wakefield's own experiences with those of other Scientologists. Testimony is her factual autobiography.

[2019] I have joined Microsoft Research and UW. My new website is at MSR.

NOTE: the Plaid project is currently inactive. See what our current group is doing on the Wyvern programming language! See the Game of Life written in Plaid. The source code to the Game of Life is ...

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CMU's Project Olympus and the NSF Innovation Corps Hub Mid-Atlantic Region recently hosted entrepreneurs and researchers in ...

Random Things Dave's guide to Running in Pittsburgh - I have a bit of a running problem, so I put together a list of nice runs in the area. My list and map of running routes in Boston The Usable Mac - ...

Mirror of GeoHot's PS3 Jailbreak 2/9/2011 Update: Sony sinks its own battleship by retweeting the PS3 master key: 1/27/2011 Update: Judge Illston has granted the TRO against George Hotz despite the ...

Office Hours: GHC 5713. Usually Thursdays 1-2pm, or by appointment.

I am looking for new students. My current research focus is enabling robots to learn strategies (tricks, hacks) to do tasks from direct instruction, googling and using the web, observation, and ...

Customization of text-to-image models enables users to insert custom concepts and generate the concepts in unseen settings. Existing methods either rely on costly test-time optimization or train ...

Consider the words "man", "woman", "boy", and "girl". Two of them refer to males, and two to females. Also, two of them refer to adults, and two to children. We can ...