[PRL] Peter Lee on his new role at DARPA (@MIT on Wed)

[Mitchell Wand]

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:44:28 -0500
Subject: TALK:Wednesday 1-6-10 DARPA/TCTO Overview ("Peter at DARPA")

DARPA/TCTO Overview ("Peter at DARPA")
Speaker: Peter Lee
Speaker Affiliation: DARPA Transformational Convergence Technology Office
(TCTO)
Host: Victor Zue
Host Affiliation: CSAIL

Date: 1-6-2010
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 32-G449/Patil Conference Room

 Peter Lee has been a faculty member and, most recently, Head of the
Computer
Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.  Three months ago, he
began
a stint at DARPA as the Director of the new Transformational Convergence
Technology Office (DARPA/TCTO).  TCTO’s mission is to develop research
programs that enhance the nation’s ability to anticipate strategic surprise.
 It does this by re-establishing basic research programs in a broad range of
rapidly emerging computing-enabled technology areas such as social media,
synthetic biology, high-performance computing, and networking, as well as
employing a diverse range of innovation strategies including broad community
programs, competitions/challenges, and crowd sourcing.  In this talk, Dr.
Lee
will give an overview of TCTO’s mission, research areas, and approaches to
technology innovation.

Relevant URL(S):
For more information please contact: Victoria Palay, 617.253.8924,
palay at csail.mit.edu
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