A successful, happy day
The paper went very well... I used the laptop (making several last-minute changes), there were about 40 people in the audience, I had lots of audience questions and got positive feedback afterwards. (grin) Some of my colleagues said that they'd always wondered previously what kind of work I pursued.
A photo of me giving the talk is
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The hotel is courteous, the deer weren't menacing and I was on time for the opening plenary session. The afternoon papers were interesting... imagine a conference where the worlds of AI/robotics and cyberspace overlap with that of space exploration. I'm in my element, and I know at least a third of the attendees. And I met Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut attending.
Tonight I went out to dinner with Yuki (she's granted me first-name permission :) for dinner and we went to a coffee shop afterwards and talked about computer science, our cultures, and she nobly tried to introduce me to katakana script. At dinner I ate things like sesame tofu, a whole small trout, some rolled sushi, tangy seaweed (slippery texture, nearly gagged the first time, but good), various vegetables (asparagus?), rice gruel (kind of a soup), with sake and green tea.
And happy one-year anniversary,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
geekchick! Even if it's actually 2:30am Wednesday here...
A photo of me giving the talk is
.The hotel is courteous, the deer weren't menacing and I was on time for the opening plenary session. The afternoon papers were interesting... imagine a conference where the worlds of AI/robotics and cyberspace overlap with that of space exploration. I'm in my element, and I know at least a third of the attendees. And I met Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut attending.
Tonight I went out to dinner with Yuki (she's granted me first-name permission :) for dinner and we went to a coffee shop afterwards and talked about computer science, our cultures, and she nobly tried to introduce me to katakana script. At dinner I ate things like sesame tofu, a whole small trout, some rolled sushi, tangy seaweed (slippery texture, nearly gagged the first time, but good), various vegetables (asparagus?), rice gruel (kind of a soup), with sake and green tea.
And happy one-year anniversary,
geekchick! Even if it's actually 2:30am Wednesday here...
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Some of my colleagues said that they'd always wondered previously what kind of work I pursued.
Oh dear. =)
When I got back from lunch I had gorgeous flowers sitting on my desk. Thank you, and happy anniversary love. =)
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Glad that you liked the flowers :-).
And the colleagues in question were from NASA-Ames... folks with offices down the hall. Colleagues from other locations and even other countries had a better idea of what I do than do my neighbors at NASA-Ames, generally.
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What a great poly sentiment!