A year at NC State

(PUBLIC DRAFT)

I have spent a sabbatical year at North Carolina State University.

It was great. Both for professional and for personal reasons.

I came back in April 2015, approximately three years ago.

Some topics I intend to discuss here (or in other posts):

• The Realsearch group and related topics
  • Reading Group
  • The bright young people Laurie Williams selected to form her group
  • Other Software Engineering professors at NC State: Emerson, Menzies, Parnin.
• Hunt library and Hill library
• NC State, UNC and Duke
  • Thy UNC and Duke are much richer than NC State
  • Why NC State is at least as important as these two
    • Engineering
    • More students
• Raleigh and the triangle
• Three young muslims were murdered
• Running in the US and in the Triangle
  • I ran two marathons (NYC Marathon 2014 and Tobacco Road Marathon 2015)
    • I got tired of marathons!
  • I “won” (very small) races
  • I ran on Saturdays
  • I ran in a parkrun
  • I volunteered for a race
  • I volunteered for a parkrun
• Snow!
• The need for cars. Buses are not that good. Free buses at the university. Transloc.
• Run commute. Walk commute.