Wayne D's Blog

By the end of day two I thought my head was going to explode it was so filled with visual computing goodness.

We got to wtiness a BSOD during the second day keynote, I feel sorry for the CEO who got Microsofted, but that's what happens when you rely on Windows.

A few minor points, I spoke to on Japanese researcher who had come for the CUDA training sessions and was disappointed it wasn't more hands on. Education techniques have come a long way from static lectures, maybe Nvidia should talk to a teacher. Training requires an expert, Nvidia should hire a teacher. Another attendee was a bit pissed when he found out that Nvidia was giving away tickets to the Show he had paid $50 to see. It was announced in one of the sessions I attended that Nvidia was going to make all the conference slide packages available on their website. No time frame was announced but at least they are trying. This is their first time running a conference so I'll cut them some slack but I expect better next year. Another thing they might want to try and build in is more networking opportunities, maybe a meet and greet with the conference speakers and the conference attendee's. Nvison was a pretty ambitious project with so many simultaneous tracks, as a conference attendee I was constantly weighing off which of two conflicting sessions to attend. Videoing the sessions and making them available on the Nvidia website would be a great value adder for conference attendees too.

I had another brush with celebrity when I got the chance to have my picture taken with the Mythbusters just before I had to leave for the airport. I expect my kids to be much more impressed by that than the picture with Tricia Helfer. I also got a chance to attend the live Diggnation taping. I never got around to watching Diggnation but I will now. Those guys are funny, but beware they are NSFW.

I'm writing this on my EEEPC using the free wifi at the San Jose airport, now I shound go get security screened. That's it for now.