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Congratulations, Amaya !

CONGRATULATIONS, Amaya !! Yesterday I sat in on my first dissertation defense, that of my good friend and lab-mate, Amaya Becvar. It was unbelievable! Jim Hollan opened the session with a story of his first interaction with Amaya (then an unknown graduate student in Bio-Chemistry who wrote such a phenomenal essay in his undergrad HCI [...]

her name is anna. do you know her?

The past two days I’ve been super productive by spending a *long* time in this coffee shop in North Park, Claire de Lune. There are a lot of things I really like about it, but mostly that I am kept to myself and I can concentrate on my work. Today I decided to mix things [...]