Thanks to Lance for giving me this opportunity to fill in. I'm in Pittsburgh for FOCS, which started today and runs through Tuesday. Unfortunately because of travel constraints I couldn't make it to the Frieze Fest or FOCS tutorials that took place yesterday.
Pittsburgh is a city which sometimes gets a bad rap, but I've always enjoyed coming here. Besides the obvious -- at least for this blog's readers -- attraction of CMU, there are lots of neat things that you can't find anywhere else. I personally like the National Aviary, and the Carnegie museums are fun too. At the Warhol museum you can watch movies that make even the driest FOCS talk seem like a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
No time for museums today, though; the FOCS schedule is full of cool-looking talks, and tonight there is the business meeting and a panel discussion on "Exciting the public about (theoretical) Computer Science." I'll give a report on the business meeting and panel discussion later.
-- Pittsburgh is a city which sometimes gets a bad rap.
ReplyDeleteSometimes? Pittsburgh has recovered quite nicely from the lows in the 70s but this hasn't been widely reported by the press.
But beware! A recent study indicates that Pittsburgh is unprepared and could easily succumb in the event of a zombie attack.
ReplyDeleteWho are the winners of the best paper award, and the Machtey award?
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