Minneapolis - ICSE 2007

I am breaking my blog silence to tell everyone about my current trip to a conference in Minneapolis. Minneapolis is a great town this time of year. The weather is wonderful. The shops, restaurants and people are best described as amiable.

The conference itself is the best conference in my concentration (IMO), the International Conference on Software Engineering or ICSE (pronounced icksee). It has been amazing to go to a talk and sit next to people who have algorithms named after them that every CS major knows. I talked for 15 minutes to one of the founders of my field for goodness sake. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't a little starstruck.

Since I don't have the time or patience to set up a photo sharing site, I've added some of the photos of the trip below with commentary. I recommend clicking on the cityscape pictures to see the higher resolution versions.

Minneapolis really is a beautiful city. Just look at the view from my hotel room. The weather was wonderful:

The next three photos are from a series of walkways that connect many of the downtown buildings. This means that you can walk to almost any destination without going out in inclement weather. It was really great:

This is a photo of my fellow SELab researcher and friend Jason (Zhixiang Shen) and I waiting for today's keynote address:

I'll end with a rather comical looking picture of me on a Segway: