Weekly update 8: Change

I chose Obama's slogan as the title of this update in honor of his victory in the presidential elections. I don't believe he will bring change to America, at least not in the magnitude required here, nor in the amount he promised he would, but what the hell...

Now that politics are put aside, I can update that we are coming for a vacation in Tel Aviv in December. We will be in Israel for a period of two weeks (starting December 17) and I hope to be able to meet everyone during this visit. We still haven't decided where we are going to stay, and whether it will be with my father all the time or partially at D's parents. The reason to stay with my father is also the reason why not to be with him all the time: he needs our company to relieve him from his sudden solitude after my mother's death; however, I don't want him to have another shock when we leave back.

And on another topic: I started doing a nice research/game dealing with a group of agents (in real life: robots) that travel through a maze. So far I have worked only since yesterday and already I have a maze downloaded from the web and running, simple logic for a single agent to complete the maze, and scalability for a group of agents. I still need to implement a better logic for the single agent and a complex logic for the group, i.e. agents learning from the other. Nonetheless, I enjoy this game and it gives me something to do other than prepare for classes or check students work, which is boring.

Unfortunately, our lives has really become dull other than what I have written here. This week we stayed at the university long hours (13 and 14 hours on Wednesday and Thursday), so I really don't have anything else - and certainly anything funny - to tell. So, I bid you a good week and see you soon!