Greetings from Atlanta. I’m down here at the IEEE Visions, Innovation and Challenges Summit, which is the major awards ceremony for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) . I’m down here at the request of IBM to help present two awards  that the company is sponsoring.  I got there early , so I had a chance to meet face to face an old freind that I’ve only video conference with in the past. Boglárka (Bogi) E. I met Bogi a couple of years back via an IBM colleague in Hungary..  We’ve talked fairly regularly since then about AI and career stuff. She’s now a 2nd year student at GA Tech studying Comp Sci.    we took a walk and grabbed a quick lunch.. It was great meeting her in person.

Later this afternoon was  the opening of the event of the VICS conference. It  was held at the beautiful Atlanta Aquarium . The awardees and sponsors got a ‘cooks tour’ of the machinery that keeps the aquarium running.  Evidently its the largest saltwater aquarium in the world.  It was great getting to see how the machinery that keeps the water clean worked . 

After the tour there was a very nice  reception where we got   to meet the awardees and hang out with my IBM friends Andy and Laura. THe reception room had huge floor to ceiling windows that looked intot he aquarium.. cool and surreal !

It was really nice seeing so many old and new friends !

nite all, nite sam

-me