Comments | mdinitz: STOC and Redmond

mdinitz

STOC and Redmond

Jun 21, 2007 09:39

Last week I went to STOC in San Diego. It was pretty fun, with a fair number of interesting talks (especially the ones about embeddings). I came away with more problems to work on, which is always good. When I was an undergrad I used to wonder how professors could possibly think of so many problems to think about, but now I'm definitely in a ( Read more... )

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simrob June 21 2007, 17:27:53 UTC

Aww... they didn't invite us to Gates' house for the weekend!

And does anyone in your office use Office Communicator?

mdinitz June 21 2007, 17:31:16 UTC

Not that I know of -- the Silicon Valley campus is really small (as in all of MSR-SVC is in one wing of one building), so there's no need to do fancy communication stuff except with people outside. And no one that I work with is working on stuff with people at other MSR campuses.

simrob June 21 2007, 17:45:57 UTC

Aah too bad, it's like zephyr is supposed to be and Twitter actually is here.

cdtwigg June 22 2007, 01:56:12 UTC

which was neat since now I have somewhere to crash if I want to go out to SF one night

What am I, chopped liver? :)

nolacoaster June 22 2007, 13:40:52 UTC

Yeah, they conveniently forgot the Indian interns...