We had a questionable honor of being invited to Helsinki for work-related reasons in late November. It is the time of the year that people living in Finland don’t particularly enjoy, griping all the time about darkness and the drab weather, but even less us expats consider a prime time […]
Work trips are work trips – cannot really enjoy the new ambiance the way one should. Deview 2018 In October Tomi got a chance to visit a Deview 2018 event in Seoul Korea. A technology conference organized by Korean ambience intelligence company Naver. The two day event featured four parallel […]
I have had my fare share of encounters with academic dishonesty in various forms, most of them when in grad school at IU and a teaching assistant in various undergraduate or graduate classes. The first case was in my first year in the introduction to Computing” course (basically a “touch […]
Toulouse is called “The Pink City” because of the distinct orangeish pink bricks used in many buildings, … … and bridges. We spent six days in Toulouse where Tomi was invited to give a talk in a conference. Tei spent those days exploring the city and its parks. The city […]
I attended a one-day workshop on Emotional Intelligence and Social Robots at Liris (Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’information) in Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. There was not much emotions involved, but most of the talks revolved around social dimension of robotics, such as human-robot interaction, shared experiences, developmental […]
We spend a week in a lovely old town apartment in Annecy, an idyllic lakeside town, about 100 kilometers north-east of Grenoble in Haute-Savoie department. With the exception of one day, when we went for a whole-day hiking trip to the nearby mountains, we spent most of the daytime working […]
We spent a week in a small house in a small town of Mens about 55 kilometers South of Grenoble (alt. 750m). With the exception of one day, when we took a long run in nearby trails (of which there are a lot!), we spent most of the daytime working […]
So we were in Groningen, the Netherlands, for a conference for four days. We’ve never met as crazy a bicycle town as Groningen. You may expect that a completely bicycle friendly town with practically no cars would be a nice and relaxed place to go about. Think again. Groningen is […]