Travel options from Waterloo

August 6, 2008

Travel options from Waterloo I’ve tried to figure out various options for carless transportation from Waterloo. Here’s what I’ve discovered. To Pearson Airport Airways Transit option 1, door-to-door: 1.5hr, $80 for one direction. You have to wait for everyone to get on and off. They do tend to drive at reasonable highway speed. Airways Transit option 2, Airporter: 2 hours from the UW Student Life Centre, limited schedules (departs 6am, 10:45am, 1:00pm, 3:30pm; returns 8:15am, 1:30pm, 3:15pm, 6:13pm) and even less on weekends.

Academic Tree circa 2003

June 26, 2008

Pull requests accepted! https://github.com/patricklam/plam.new-webpage Henry M. Foley (physics) +--Joseph Frederick Traub (1959, from Columbia) [Columbia] (quantum) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~traub/ +--Hsiang Tsung Kung (1973, from CMU) [Harvard] (networks) http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/ +--Baudet, Gerard M. (78, from CMU) +--Cohn, Robert J. (92, from CMU)* +--Fisher, Allan L. (84, from CMU) +--Foster, Michael J. (84, from CMU) +--Hsu, Feng-hsiung (89, from CMU) +--Lam, Monica S. (87, from CMU) [Stanford] +--Michael Wolf, (August 1992, from Stanford) Thesis: "

Couch

January 9, 2008

“That’s a nice couch in your office, Patrick.” When I moved into Edgerton House I realized that trying to live without furniture soon becomes deeply unsatisfactory: the floor just isn’t that great to sit on. To avoid a repeat of that experience, I quickly purchased furniture for my new place. I found ads for a coffee table set and a couch on craigslist, which were actually posted by the same person.

Concrete Atria are not Atria!

March 21, 2004

I was happy to leave my old office, NE43-632, at 200 Technology Square, and move to 32-G730 in the Stata Center. My two complaints about Tech Square were: (1) lack of sunlight; and (2) white noise. I always found the white noise to be annoying, but the lack of sunlight was not always a problem. When I had first arrived at MIT in 2000, we did have natural sunlight in my office.