Delaware Trip
On Tuesday and Thursday we all went to Delaware. I was invited to give a talk to the “High Performance Computing” group about my research. Their name is a misnomer… It’s really the “Systems” group. I brought Dorothy along since I needed to work on my talk on the way up, and since I didn’t want to leave her stranded at the house without a car. (I could have ridden my motorcycle, but that would mean 5 hours with a suitcase riding behind me.)
The day of my talk Dorothy took Christopher (and the camera) to Longwood, a big indoor garden. So most of the pictures are of flowers:
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Meanwhile, I met with David Shepherd, one of Lori Pollock’s students, in the morning, had lunch with her and her students, gave my talk, and met with more of Lori’s students in the afternoon. Their research is interesting, but I’m not sure there’s overlap right now.
I learned that their building was an example of “riot architecture” meant to confuse rioting students. Apparently the architects didn’t spend much time on other considerations-the offices were packed into narrow halls.
In the morning my host Martin Swany picked me up a little early so I could listen to a talk by one of their faculty candidates. It was nice to listen to a job talk that was software-oriented… W&M CS hasn’t interviewed a software engineering candidate since I started there.