I am attending a research workshop on knowledge and search engines at UCLA’s IPAM this week (and the next several). The image below is a panoramic shot of the UCLA property (May’s Landing in Malibu) where we had the kickoff retreat.

Yesterday I gave two tutorial talks. The first was …

It’s tough being a bag in Los Angeles. Or at least my backpack thinks so.

Every day that I have been in Los Angeles so far I have been out walking or riding my bike. Usually I have my backpack with me, to hold my laptop, some books, and other items. My backpack is one of those padded …

So for a period of time in the near future I will be working and doing research in a place where I will not have a car. This might not be so bad if it were not for the commute back and forth to the office.

So my solution, perhaps with my engineering background showing a bit too much, was to buy …