{"id":40758,"date":"2017-03-30T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T23:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=40758"},"modified":"2017-04-01T09:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T13:08:46","slug":"thursday-night-chieko-san-and-hiro-san","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2017\/03\/30\/thursday-night-chieko-san-and-hiro-san\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; Chieko-san and Hiro-San"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the great privilege and fun of hosting my friends Cheiko-sanand Hiro-san\u00a0in our Munich Lab today.<\/p>\n<p>Chieko-san has been blind since she was a teen ager and leads IBM&#8217;s daptive technology research efforts. Take a look at her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/chieko_asakawa_how_new_technology_helps_blind_people_explore_the_world\" target=\"_blank\">TED Talk\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 to get an idea of the amazing thigns she does.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hiro-san works with CHiko-san and often travels with her both \u00a0as a research partern and guide. He&#8217;s also an old freind of mine..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We had about 70 folks show up for the talk. thats standing room only..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4254.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4258.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My friend Michael borght over soem of his 3D printed data reprenstations to &#8216;show&#8217; to Chiko<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4269.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I printed up a small model of our building to give her. It was fun showing her where we&#8217;d been in the building using the physical model<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4305.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4308.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>\\<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4314.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we got dinner together at a nearby german place.. long wait.. but great food<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4317.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4319.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>\\\\\\<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4325.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK.. gotta catch a flight tomorrow.. so gotta sleep.<\/p>\n<p>more from the trip<\/p>\n<p>nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the great privilege and fun of hosting my friends Cheiko-sanand Hiro-san\u00a0in our Munich Lab today. Chieko-san has been blind since she was a teen ager and leads IBM&#8217;s daptive technology research efforts. Take a look at her TED Talk\u00a0\u00a0 to get an idea of the amazing thigns she does. &nbsp; Hiro-san works with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2017\/03\/30\/thursday-night-chieko-san-and-hiro-san\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; Chieko-san and Hiro-San<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40847,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40758\/revisions\/40847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}