Congraduations to Dany Qumsiyeh!

I've just graduated my first student: Dany Qumsiyeh turned in an excellent M.Eng. thesis yesterday called A Distributed Building Evacuation System.

Talks, talks, talks

I went to post the Autonomy in Spatial Computing talk I gave at HotAC yesterday and discovered that I'd forgotten to posted the talk on Spatial Computing and the Challenge of Engineered Emergence that I gave at Harvard back in April.

Also, flying for a single-day trip is a bizarre experience. First, it's totally weird to be getting on a plane with nothing but a laptop bag for luggage. Second, the self-service checkin automatically checked me in for my flight back too, meaning that when I got to the airport on the way back, all I had to do was walk straight through security to my gate.