Shameless self-promotion

Yesterday, I gave my public defense of my dissertation, “Improving access to medical knowledge using multilingual search interfaces”. My department’s administrative ninjas have posted the video of the public portion of the defense to the department’s blog– check it out if you’re curious and have an hour or two to kill!

Now that the defense is behind me, I might have a little bit more time for blogging… and we all know what that means! “Notes on Travel, 2010 edition, Italy & Cape Town.” Yes, Internet hordes, I know it’s been difficult for you, waiting these last few months for the definitive account of my exploits in La Serenissima and Cape Town- the media reports have blown everything way out of proportion, and those quotes were taken out of context, I swear.

Contrary to what you may have seen or read in the reports from the “mainstream media”, or in the numerous & vicious libels that have been floating around the ‘net, I was not personally responsible for the fluctuations in global prices on Proscuitto and Prosecco during the month of September. Furthermore, the bearded individual you all saw in the Youtube videos- the one riding through St. Mark’s Square on a Ducati Monster clad in only an OHSU t-shirt and ranting loudly about machine translation- was not me, and anybody claiming that it was will be hearing from my attorneys. I look forward to setting the record straight- watch this space!