There was a Presidential Colloquy at RPI today. Followed by the ribbon-cutting to inaugrate the CCNI, apparently the most powerful University-based supercomputing center. The best thing about this facility is that you don't have to be a CS Grad to be able to use it. As far as my requirements go, I can do beautifully well with a Pentium III as long as it has sufficient RAM to run Office applications!

I went in to see what a colloquy was all about. The participants in the colloquy were Dr Shirley Ann Jackson, President of RPI, Dr Arden Bement, Director National Science Foundation, Dr J Marburger, Science Advisor to the President of the USA, and Dr John Kelly, Senior VP IBM. I guess they get quizzed on the same topics over and over, but I liked the pace at which these executives spoke. And everybody seemed to hold each other in very high regard.

We had a GradISA get-together in the evening. There was Indian food from Karavalli that I particularly enjoyed. I guess I was really hungry.

Then we watched 'Chak De India'. The hostels where the players stayed reminded me somewhat of the camps organized when I was at school. They were not the most appealing of environments.

I loved the regional dialects in Komal and Balbir's characters. And their tempers. And I absolutely liked Bindia Naik.