This is a predictive post; Ann Arbor is a great place to live, and I will miss it. I’m just trying to guess what I will miss most.
Convenience to family
Ann Arbor Flickr geeks, too many to name
Salons chez Jeff and all the cultured, interesting people who gather to toast and talk
the Michigan Theater
Silvio’s Organic […]
Subtitle: an enthusiastic audience member’s biased account of the IA Summit 2007 panel with Karl Fast (Kent State U), Grant Campbell (U of Western Ontario), & Don Turnbull (U Texas - Austin).
Karl gave a great introduction to the origins of the “Grand Challenges” construct for researchers. This is a way of identifying the major […]
In December, I joined a photo-a-day Flickr group, Project 365!, as the daily photo meme captured my fancy. At the time, I knew that it would prove challenging to continue to come up with something passable every day, much less something good. But I’m persistent and not inclined to back out on my […]
John Holland wrapped up our course, Introduction to Adaptive Systems, with a question answering session for the class. Along with the narrative of his impressive career as the Father of Genetic Algorithms, he related promising areas for research in adaptive systems and then spent a few minutes talking about consciousness.
I’m so glad that I […]
Brian got me curious enough to go look at the search queries for my blog, using Google Analytics. Here’s a poetic deconstruction of the queries that lead people here:
the social life of information
knitta, please–
where i can start writing information about my class, mates?
people so busy working
(they have no social life)
knit cozies sweater season
malabrigo,
cognac
where are […]