Spent much of the day down in Cambridge helping to film a short piece for some friends. Amro, and our filming buddies Udo and Nico.… It was kind of funny. No soundtrack so we had to make up things to talk about. My friend Amro and I had a good deal of fun trying to figure out the most out rages things to say while we were being filmed. Only we will know… Wait… I guess you know now as well 🙂
I also had to say goodbye to my friend Robin who’s been Visit Dean with us from Karlsruhe Germany at the Cambridge lab for the last six weeks. It’s been a really great stay. You brought a lot of fun and skills with you. We hope to return the favor someday!
OK… Got a wake up early for a flight. More tomorrow
Super busy and super fun day here in Cambridge. Had a great meeting with my friend Robyn who’s been visiting us for six weeks then went over to campus to meet with Josh… An MIT professor is doing amazing work on modeling human hearing.
Around 1 o’clock Jon and Anchar Showed up from Yorktown and we talk to them for a while… After work I had the idea to take a bunch of our team over to see artist asylum. It was a 40 minute walk so I tried to find a restaurant that was halfway. It turns out that our friend Tyler’s All-Star pizza was exactly halfway
After hanging out with Tyler and eating some really excellent food we walked on to artist Asylum. It’s the maker space that we modeled generator off of. It’s been around for a long time and is really a great model of water maker space could be. My friend lars is the executive director there and looks like he’s doing an excellent job!
My friends really loved art asylum… I’m hoping to find us a project here.
Back down in Cambridge. Got here about 10:15 PM just in time to meet my old friends Pol and Kathy. I met them both when I was at Carnegie Mellon. It’s been at least 20 years since I’ve seen them. It was so great catching up. They are both my favorite type of nerds. Great catching up on kids, creations, old friends.
Earlier today got to go out for a nice run and then a walk with Diane and the dogs by the river shore .
Back in Vermont for 24 hours to deal with a plumbing issue and see Diane and the doggies
Back from a very exciting and fun tech together hackathon at Boston University this weekend. It was really an amazing event. More than 1000 women and non-binary gender hackers.
I was SO Impressed with the creativity and energy of all of these folks. Our challenge on technology fairness Turned out to be very popular. We had 18 teams Create solutions from hiring tools to ASL interpretation to bias in security screening.
I was there until about 3am last night working with one of the teams. It was actually hard saying goodbye to them Since it was so fun to work with them.
We had a great group of volunteers from IBM and represented really well. My thanks to all our teammates into Valentina and Pooja for being the coordinator’s
Here’s some pictures from the event today
Here’s the judging training event
The hackathon volunteers
The fabulous hand hand revolution team that used ibm tools to do ask recognition!
. My friend Heena from my Old IOT days
That’s ASL for IBM
Acres and acres of pizza
Award time!
Up on stage with Pooja to give out the awards
Our first place winners the hiring team… Their app removed the bias in hiring
Out asl team
My favorite team SafeNet… These are the folks I worked with until 3 AM. Excellent programmers and excellent people. I look forward to working with them again
We got all of the team together afterwards… Good thing that I had “this girl is on fire”loaded on my tesla coil… Doesn’t everyone? 🙂
. My friend Heena from my Old IOT days
