Stepped foot on MIT

What a way to end my day! :)

After attending the conference today, we visited MIT on the pretext of attending the Cambridge Semantic Web Gathering. Here's a picture of me in front of the Whitehead Institute.

Anyway, the "user group" meeting was very informative and we got to hear about two interesting SW projects: (1) SPARQL and (2) SIMILE. And wow, I saw Tim Berners-Lee in person, though at that time I did not have a clue who he was. It's a pity I didn't get to shake his hand and asked him to autograph my palm!

It has been an exciting day for me today, not only because of the events cited above, but because much of today was spent on listening about how Web 2.0 and Semantic Web are relevant to the Life Sciences. Hopefully there's sufficient justification for me to work in this area.