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| Everyone knows that no workshop would be complete without those last minute preparations (and xerox machine failures at midnight). Can you tell Lorena was up most the night printing notebooks? We hope you enjoy this stroll down SRSDR'00 memory lane. | As you can see, we managed to make it to the workshop, and greeted our guests with copies of our on-line presentations, along with many other goodies. The ISIP yo-yo's, masterminded by Rick Duncan, make their official debut. |
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| For the last time, no, it doesn't snow in Mississippi! | Hmmm... no Jumbotron? |
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| Ram Sundaram opens the technical program with a Java demo. | Rick Duncan calmly begins the job submission demo. |
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| Rick learns why you should always practice a demo on the laptop before a presentation. | Chris Atkeson, from Georgia Tech, explains "Hit Control Alt Delete." |
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| Joe Picone explains "We are not three months behind schedule, it just seems that way..." | "This is the MindNet." exclaims Aravind Ganapathiraju. Somewhere in Boston, Neeraj Deshmukh is smiling. |
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| Aravind explains that if you tilt your head slightly, the word error rates look a lot better. | Joe Picone explains "So we work twice as hard with half as many students and finish the system four times faster!" |
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| Geoff Zweig of IBM explains to Konsta Koppinen of Tampere University of Technology in Finland that most American airports are bit larger than Golden Triangle Regional Airport. | Bill Chapman introduces our bullet-proof software engineering process. Bryan George of Mitre (lower left) is thinking that the next release might just compile under Linux. |
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| Jon Hamaker explains how simple search algorithms are. | "As you can clearly see..." |
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| Rick is still trying to get the demo to work. | Limin Du, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, joins the group, and explains "Hit Control Alt Delete." |
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| People mill about contemplating another half day of this stuff. | Aravind reassures our guests that search is really simple. |
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| Vishwanath Mantha reassures Limin Du that our search engine will work for Chinese also. | Bryan George (left) asks "Did I miss the part about search being really simple?" Jon Hamaker says "Piece of cake." Mark Ordowski (right) says "Uh huh..." |
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| The SRSDR'00 Olympic Yo-Yo Team. | The before-dinner entertainment. |
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| Antti-Veikko Rosti says, "I came all the way from Finland to learn about yo-yo's :(" | Rick says, "The demo didn't work, but I can do really cool yo-yo tricks." |
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| Dinner is served. | Mark Ordowski (right) is ready to yo-yo. |
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| At last, someone who knows how to use these yo-yo's. Jonathon Little, a 14-year old high school student gave us a great tutorial. | Yo-yo training continued into the wee hours of the morning. |
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| Over to MS State's Engineering Research Center for some really cool demos. | Robert Moorhead (left), head of the Scientific Visualization thrust, says, "I can't believe you actually showed up at 8 AM." |
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| have landed in Starville, Mississippi. | As Robert Moorhead demonstrates the "Vomit Mountain" demo, he thinks "a little turn to the right and I am sure they will fall over." |
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| "OK, I need an SGI supercomputer, a 20'x20' room, about $800K, and I can get one of these for my house? Did that include the Nintendo joystick?" | "...and it's really great for birthday parties." |
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| This is what you get when you hire art students... | Whoa! |
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| "This is what we call the keyboard..." | Shivali Srivastava is really possessive about her keyboard. |
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| Aravind finds time to draw pictures. | Excuse me! Has anyone seen my keys? |
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| "So this is what ISIP's new computer room will look like." | Dan Snider of MIT Lincoln Labs leaves a happy customer, thinking the tutorial will work just as well when he tries to run it on his machines back home... |