This is the first book I read from Amélie Nothomb (translation here). Daughter of a Belgian ambassador, she was born in Kobe, Japan. The book is an auto-biography of a western girl born in Japan. It fascinated me that it only covers her early years. I felt for her easy fluent, sweet, and charming writing. A fascinating description of the magic Japan she was born in through her young innocent eyes....
Yes, today is the deadline for the ACM 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Submit your paper here, you have time till 10pm Pacific time.
Teo is the main character of a collection of books for kids. It is amazing how Teo’s illustrated books by Violeta Denou are ageless. I still remember spending hours reading again and again “En Teo va en avió” (Teo catches a plane).
Yes, today is the deadline for the IEEE 2006 Conference onf Evolutionary Compuations. Submit your paper here. Tomorrow is the deadline for the ACM 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. However, the submission server will remain open for two weeks after that date, and many of the special sessions have already extended the deadline accordingly.
Finally, we decided to go up to Chicago for the CAAFC tournament. Long, long time since the last one I went. Now at CAAFC you can pre-register and check the competition results in Ask Fred. Here you can find the link to the tournament we went. The mixed foil event that I took part in was won by Peter Habala. I could sit for ever watching his fluent fencing. It seems so natural and easy…