Diane and I are just back from a fun four day adventure. Work took me down to NY so we took advantage of that to see Max and get soem good hang out time.. Well.. Hoenstly, i was workign too hard to hang out much.. But at least it was fun to be busy with diane near me..

Todays adventure was prett unique. We went to a conference on sustainable techology at the UN.

 

 

Id been invited because of my work with the ACM International Computer Programming Challenge (ICPC). The conference was ababout the ways that technology.. Includign the IoT stuff I work on.. Can help make a diffence in the world. I made soem good contacts and learned quite a bit.. What was most interestign, thought.. Was the sponsorship of the conference. It was sponsor by Amarita university in India.. A principle sponsor of ICPC.. Most amazing is the founder of Amarita.. Amma ..Amma is called 'the hugging saint'. She leads a foundation that is dedicated to education and bringing folks out of poverty. Diane and i were lucky enoguh to get a couple of Amma's famous hugs and spend 20 min with her discussing how technology like IoT might help the folks in India. I havent met many (any ?) other saints in my life.. Certainly mot any with enough technology backgrou and to discuss IoT with insight and clarity as Amma did

 

She is an amazing spirit.. Whats most amazing is how she has inspired/empowered so many people to go out in the world and make a differnce. All through the mornign we met with academics, sceintists and everyday people whod been inspired by Amma and her group to go into rural parts of the world and apply technology to realworld problems. We heard abotu monitoring for landslides, rain measurement, telemedicine , remote edcuation and nano filtering of water. We heard abotu student projects aimed at teachign women how to do masonry and plumbing to build public toilets.. Ive never met so many smart and trained people aimed just at doing good in the world ..

Feeling inspired…

Nite all, nite sam

-me