For some time now I have been on frequent travel. You know what this means – quick meals from the drive-through window, not enough “good for you” foods and drinks, exposure to lots of other people on the run and sometimes sick with a cold or flu, lack of a good night’s sleep, and a difficulty in getting enough exercise.

I’ve just been appointed to a research position with the Human Language Technology Center for Excellence (HTLCOE) at Johns Hopkins University.

The wonderful folks at Synthesize.us have made a Star Trek theme for the Nokia N810, so now it has an LCARS display just like those PADD tablets they use on Enterprise:

Yesterday was a little busier than normal. In the morning I gave a research talk, “Text analysis with Iterative Denoising,” at the spring meeting of the International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region.

Image credit: Alan De Smet Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, has died:

Due to the heavy marketing by Apple and Amazon, you are surely by now familiar with the iPhone and Kindle.