Madrid - conference

Attended and presented at a conference on AI applications. Appropriately held at this building dedicated to Alan Turing at the Escuela Politécnica Superior. Felt very empty, but semester might not have started yet.

The central quad area where we had lunch was a very fancy/interesting building design and had solar panels on the roof, neat! I later learned that Spain requires all new buildings to have solar panels, and has over 40% renewable electricity.

At one of the conference meals I had my first ham and ham sandwich. They do love their pork here.

University grounds were nice, with new and older buildings and some nice park areas.Read more