Memorial Day Parade
The Memorial Day Parade went by the office window this morning so I nipped outside into the sunshine to take some photos. Unfortunately I missed the guys with bagpipes at the beginning... the whole thing took me a bit by surprise because I thought it wasn't scheduled to start until after lunch. The parade itself consisted of a varied bunch of people from members of the military, firefighters, ambulancemen, people in historical costumes and boy scouts. In between the groups of people and the bands were a selection of interesting vehicles:
Some pictures of the marching people:
Naturally I took some video snippets... unfortunately they're in a mixture of different formats -- sorry if none of them work for you.
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Visit to Pittsburgh
I'm just back from Pittsburgh where the
100x100 project
had a combined "retreat" and NSF review. It was pretty interesting,
especially for me. The talks were all of very high quality (the average was
much better than at all of the conferences I've been to) and it was
useful to meet people who are also working on the project.
Before the main review started we had a practice session. Here are some pictures of the gradstudent poster session at which I presented the switch simulation (the demo is on the right, next to Sandy):
The demo itself seemed to go down well (probably because of all the flashy 3D graphics):
I didn't see too much of Pittsburgh while I was there but here are a few shots taken on the way from the university to the hotel. The leftmost shows the CS facility and the other two attempt to show how hilly the place was (the entrace to the building is on floor 4 and there is a ground-exit on every floor apparently). Notice the gothic looking building on the rightmost photo.
The leftmost picture shows a church near the campus and the rightmost one is of the
Pittsburgh Software Engineering Institute:
Here's the impressive gothic building again -- certainly puts
Cambridge's UL
to shame:
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