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There was a lot of excitement, last week, when Autodesk announced a $200 million investment in Dr. Fei-Fei Li's World Labs startup. Just to get this out there from the get-go: I have no special information about this investment - I heard about it at the same time as anyone outside the company, and was […]
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Yesterday was a day of strange coincidences. After several months of heated discussions with His Majesty's Passport Office, I finally received my replacement UK passport in the post. In a nutshell the problem had come from me sending in a copy of my Swiss passport - with the name "Kean Walmsley" - with the application. […]
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Last week I was back in the UK this week to visit friends and family but also for a networking event hosted by UCL's International Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDesign. I landed on Tuesday evening and went straight to Cookham to catch up with my brother and and old friend. It was a nice evening […]
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It's been a strange start to the year, here in Switzerland, with the news of the tragedy in Crans-Montana. On the morning of January 1st my wife and I woke up to breaking news of a fire in a Swiss mountain nightclub. We opened the link and immediate started to panic: our second son had […]
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I usually enjoy the month of December a great deal: things are winding down for the holiday season, and participating in Advent of Code helps dust off my atrophying coding skills. This year has been a little different, for various reasons: I've had a number of converging end-of-year deadlines that have kept me busier than […]
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The last post talked about the trip across to Santa Fe and the first few days settling in. Now that I'm back from the week away, I've written up the second part of the mini-series, which covers the main part of the trip and the return. As I was up early with jet lag on […]
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On Saturday I went to the station in foggy Neuchatel to take the train to Zurich. From there I was heading to the town of Santa Fe in New Mexico - somewhere I'd never been - for our annual meeting of the leaders working on our various research areas. There are no direct flights to […]
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Last week I headed across to Barcelona for the annual offsite of our research team. As the dates of the meeting fell during my daughter's school holidays - a rare occurrence! - we were able to fly out together to Spain. Barcelona isn't Benidorm, but you do get the occasional hint of that very strange […]
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After holding a couple of fantastic Encoding Experience events in Boston and San Francisco, last week was our chance to see how well the format would work in the UK. On Monday I was back in Zurich airport to fly across to Heathrow. It was one of those rare flights where I opted for a […]
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Today is the 30th anniversary of my first day at Autodesk. On August 29th 1995 - when the first Jurassic Park movie was still relatively fresh in our collective mind - I showed up for work at the Autodesk office on Cross Lanes in Guildford, UK. (This office probably closed 25 years ago, now - […]