Big State Blogging
Ah to travel from the smallest state to the biggest state and back again. Actually I’m well aware that Alaska, not Texas, is the biggest state, and also I’m not back in Rhode Island yet, but hey, that’s my lead, live with it. I’ll really be back in Providence on thursday, although then it’s off to NYC on saturday and finally Belize on sunday (oooooh, ahhhhhh).
So where am I staying until Thursday? Why the lovely Doubletree Hotel in Dallas of course, as I’m currently attending the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s (SRC) annual integrated systems review at Southern Methodist University (SMU). It is indeed an abrupt transition for someone coming from SXSW interactive in Austin.
In retrospect, it seems silly that I didn’t write more about SXSW interactive, an eminently blogable conference, while I was there. I’ll correct this oversight tomorrow after my presentation at this SRC event. For now, I’ll note that my trip to Dallas has proved shockingly beneficial. At dinner I discovered that the engineering graduate student I was sitting next to had cited a paper of mine in his paper on nanowire address discovery. This got me pretty excited, because I hardly ever meet anyone who works in my area of research, and I was literally writing about address discovery the day I left for Texas. Also, before tonight, I only knew of one other paper on this subject.
Anyway, if conference summaries aren’t your thing, here’s a picture of the SMU’s ironically named life science building (sorry about the hard to read photo).
