50 years on

Today was Commem, and my year group's 50th anniversay of matriculation.  A group of us went along to to meet up, and see all the changes.

It was great to see old friends (with maybe not too much emphasis on the "old"), and how the buildings have changed, and not changed, over the years.  I was amused to find that my first year room has since been converted into ... a student kitchen.  (The student in the kitchen at the time was somewhat bemused to be descended upon by a group of old ladies :-)  

This specific change is somewhat ironic, given the amount of cooking I did at the time (zero).

view from a hotel window

I'm in Cambridge, attending the two day Novel Computational Paradigms workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute.  Yesterday I learned about using magnonics in computational devices, about different kinds of DNA computing, and about some unconventional computational architectures.  Today I'm off to talks about industry's computational problems, and discussions sessions.  All very interesting.

And all set off by a glorious view of a frosty autumn morning:

bus stop time

There’s an old saying that:

time is a device to prevent everything happening at once,
space is a device to prevent it all happening in Cambridge

And now I have discovered that Cambridge Railway Station bus stops each have their own time zone!

I wonder what the time is at the other railway station stops?

I’m off to the Cambridge Philosophical Society’s one day meeting on What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big.  By this evening I hope to have better knowledge of my lack of knowledge.

Newnham corridor

Newnham has the second longest continuous indoor corridor in Europe. I walked the length of this corridor many times, many many years ago.  Happy days.

What surprises me from this video is that, although there have been a lot of changes since my time (particularly around the central Clough/Buttery/Library/Sidgwick area [oh, and the ability to make and distribute videos...]), I still recognise a lot of it (including the Fawcett and Strachey fire doors...)

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