A New Kind of Something?

I'm here at NKS Summer School and I'm learning a lot. There are about four lectures every day by very interesting people on very interesting topics. I'm also working on a very ambitious machine vision project. It's half modeling (of the human visual pathway) and half technology (I hope it will be useful).

I've met and talked with Stephen Wolfram a little, and he seems to be an intensely smart person (I guess there's a reason he got his PhD at 20). NKS makes a lot of broad pronouncements, but I think there is some truth to be found, and I hope to find it.

I've also made some friends, some of whom also go to NYU, but others who are scientists or programmers, or some combination thereof. I'm having a lot of fun, and working diligently on my project. Wish me luck.