Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Travel
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Volcanoes, Travel and Social Networks
Many of us have had family, friends, colleagues or acquaintances stranded far from home by the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano. At one point, I joked with one friend that he should consider a land route to central Europe, catch the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, kayak across the Bering Strait to Alaska, then drive down…
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Driving: Integers and Reals
Despite the deep and broad similarities that transend regional and national cultures, uniting us as humans, I have observed wide variation in one one deeply individualistic trait. The frequency of this trait widely varies across regions of the United States, across countries and across cultures; it is preponderant in some, rare in others, but present…
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Reflections on Tibet
I have been following the recent news about Tibet with great sadness and thought it appropriate to comment on my experiences last summer.
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KAUST IT Summit Reflections
From discussions, it is really clear is that the success or failure of KAUST will depend on Saudi Aramco’s ability to recruit world-class faculty to Saudi Arabia. As I noted in my closing comments, the old Zenith marketing slogan remains apt: “The quality goes in before the name goes on.”