Escaped Thoughts

I found out this morning that the paper (PDF) I co-authored with my advisor, which is essentially the 8-page version of my 100+ page thesis, was accepted to IROS 2004! So now my thesis work will be catapulted from Case's basement to an major international AI conference. Needless to say, I'm pretty excited about that—even if I most likely won't be the one going to Japan.