April Showers....Recapping an Insane Month

With Tapia, Midterms, and now Spring Break finally behind us we are digging in deep for the home stretch of the semester. As I prepare to graduate in less than 34 days, we are pushing to wrap up the bugs that have been keeping us from preparing a data set that includes not just the CPU models, but the GPU as well. We are aiming to have at least a few models to go off of in order to send Steph off into the summer program with a good foundation for increasing the accuracy of the GPU models.

Given that she was back home in Southern CA for the break, and I spent mine working and traveling the bay area, we are refreshed and ready to hit the ground running this week, even in the midst of finals and graduation coming up.

As far as the Tapia SF Conference was concerned, we had the wonderful opportunity to meet with our research adviser, as well as her adviser (our grandpa!) for coffee beforehand. Following that, over the course of 3 days, we attended symposiums on topics varying from robotic climate modeling in Antarctica, to 3D rendering and photo matching programs people can use to link their photos to specific street locations on Google Maps. Each day was non-stop from 8am to 10pm, and definitely filled with more information than we expected. All in all, it was an amazing experience that allowed us to network, make new friends, and solidify some of our goals for the future around computing.

With that being said, progress reports will be posted soon, hopefully with some new pretty data sets!