The plane is descending into London. If this were any other time, I’d be ecstatic–I love London. However, this time London was not my destination. So, then, why then am I minutes from landing in Heathrow Airport?

This trip’s debacle is thanks to a maintenance issue with my United flight. Can the …

For my needs, this is an exceptional travel tripod.

I am not a professional photographer, but I do travel a lot, and so I want a robust travel tripod that is easy to use. Previous travel tripods I’ve tried were often too flimsy or unstable — I was never sure that the tripod legs wouldn’t collapse …

Just a brief note.

I’ve been quiet lately because I’m neck-deep in a rather interesting research problem: speech-to-text translation for low-resource languages.

I’m up at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Here’s a summary of what we are researching, from …