Welcome to my blog!!!!
Tonight I have become a blogger. I never thought I would do this, because I feel that blogging is essentially a waste of time. Why? Because I could be doing something else more useful in the physical world instead of spending time writing something for nobody in particular.
So, why start a blog? The answer to this obvious question is that I am on the eve of taking my 18 year old daughter for three weeks on a graduation trip to Europe. Back to the old homeland, since we were both born in The Netherlands. She was three months old when we left, and it has never just been me and her going back together. Now, finally, two months before she will go off to college, she and I will spend three weeks travelling through Holland, Belgium and also Berlin. So, I thought, to keep everyone back home up to speed with what we're doing ... I will try to blog as much as possible, although not more than once per day, and probably less.
Also, while I am on vacation I am planning to finish my book proposal. Indeed, Bill Clancey and I are planning to write a book. About? About Brahms. No, not the composer, but our agent-oriented language for modeling and simulating people and systems, situated in places and doing all kinds of work. After having worked on Brahms for over 15 years, together with Bill Clancey, Ron van Hoof, Mike Scott, Chin Seah, recently Peter Jarvis, and for this summer Matt Keally, we have more than enough material to write a book. Agent programming languages are new and becoming a hot topic, so it is an opportune time to be writing a book about one of those languages. Also, as more people are starting to use Brahms, having a users guide to learn the language is good.
So, the idea is that I will use this blog to post the different chapters of our book. This way, people can give feedback and suggestions. I hope that that will be a useful way to get started, and keep going.
But, for now, in the next three weeks, I'll be writing about our European Vacation. I hope you enjoy it!!! If not, too bad :-)
About Me
- MXS
- I am an area manager at (Xerox)PARC, managing the Knowledge, Language & Interaction area in the Intelligent Systems Lab. Prior to PARC, I was a senior researcher at NASA Ames Research Center near Mountain View in California for over 12 years. My research is in Human-Centered Computing, Multi-Agents Systems and Simulation of people's work practice for space applications.
7 comments:
Wow! You have a Ph.d.?
Looking forward to reading more about your trip and Brahms.
Help, my brother is a blogger! Are their any support groups for that?
Jan, you have my deepest sympathies, it must be devastating to find out that one's own brother is a blogger. I'm sure there are support groups for this out there, and Maarten will need much family support at the difficult time when he decides to go back to being a normal human being.
Looking forward to reading about your trip back to the Netherlands.
Don't forget to wear your "I'm blogging this" t-shirt to meetings! I'm looking forward to reading your coverage of the lab scheduling discussion.
Man, you have attracted more comments for your first entry than I have had on my blog in four years :-) I guess we know what that proves.
Megan drinking beer in Holland
Andrew drniking Margaretas in Mexico, this drinking age of 21 is very effective............. what will become of this country when they start running it.
Our travels were challainging as well, almost got stuck in Denver coming back from Mexico.
Hey just do not start talking like a blogger when you get back
When it keepsn raining make sure you put your finger in the dike :)
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