Entries for August 2005
Barry Brumitt - Connecting Models with the Physical World
Although I tend to work from home anyway now that I have no classes to go to, it does still make a difference that I'm now a long way from my lab and academic department. For some things—like the weekly lab meetings—there is no substitute, but other things can be got around. While physically at Case there were various seminars each semester with invited speakers (and also a course requirement that I go to 5 of the department's seminars each semester), and they were a resource I found useful. Fortunately Seattle has several universities and private research institutions that hold open seminars, so it's not exactly difficult to make up for this. If anything, it's going to be easier now for me to cherry-pick talks that are more relevant to my own work, because instead of a requirement to go to 5 seminars from a specific series, I can go to any of interest.
I'm going to start writing up brief reports on talks I go to, partly to aid my own memory, partly for the edification of anyone else who might be interested, and partly because I am supposed to show that I've gone to enough here that it's a reasonable substitute for the ones I'm missing in Cleveland.
Today's was Barry Brumitt of Microsoft Research, talking at Intel's lab about Connecting Models with the Physical World
. The talk was anchored with two concrete examples from his own work, and behind the cut I'll write about both.
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Getting back into a routine
Apologies for the hiatus here, which was longer than planned. The interruption to quietly getting work done was a good deal shorter, but still longer than planned.