Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006
This was a great conference, and I highly recommend all female
students attend at least once. The focus is less technical and more on
everything you need to know about being a computer scientist, being
female, and being a professor or in industry. The chance to meet people
from diverse fields, academic, industrial, and governmental, is better
than anywhere else I've been. Speakers were fantastic, sessions were
interesting, and there was even some fun.
Some technical research is presented, but the majority of the focus
is on being a researcher---other conferences are there to cover what we
research, this seems more about who we are. I liked it.
Cog Sci 2006
Short of pictures for this one, but it was a very interesting
conference. Very different from any other I've been to. Less technical,
maybe because Cognitive Science brings together such a wide range of
disciplines.
Knowledge Representation 2006
I went to the KR conference with Brian on a mission to uncover what
the knowledge representation folk are up to. It was an interesting
experience. There are parallels, but less focus on applications (even
toy problems). A lot of the formal logics went
over my head, of course.
(Christian (our KR ambassador), me and Brian)
The official conference site is here.
The setting was beautiful - on Lake Windermere in England.
More pretty pictures will be posted shortly on my husband's
site.
Predictive Representations Workshop 2006
A great week at McGill's Bellairs Institute. We got to meet with other people working on predictive representations. Ideas were bounced around, progress compared, rum drunk.
(Rich at the whiteboard - "While we're checking out the facilities, we
might as well discuss . . . ")
(Melanie and Brian on the beach by the estate.)
(Michael James and Cosmin at Crane Beach.)
(David Wingate in a breakout session.)
(Doina, Rich, Satinder, Brian, and Britton watching David go.)
(Chris and Eric moving the chalkboard so Susanna can explain
Information Theory to us in the dining room.)