I had attended the two previous years, but didn't present until this year, when I gave two talks: a new talk on creating innovative and intuitive designs, and a redux of the talk I'd given at CHI 2007. The former of the two talks was a collaboration with Jen Hocko of the MathWorks (a Bentley alum) and the latter was a collaboration with Hanna Yehuda of EMC (also a Bentley alum).
My friend Manya (you guessed it -- a Bentley alum) snapped this picture of me and my former classmate, Mike Ryan. Manya has yet to take a bad picture of me :) Andrew, on the other hand ... well, keep working on it Andrew ... I know I'm not photogenic, as proven by this shot during the second of the two talks. But I appreciate that he got it, none the less :) Andrew is nearly done with the Bentley program, but I was horrified to find out yesterday that I'm ~old enough to be his mom ... he was born while I was in high school. Gawd. Did I mention that I'm turning 40 soon?