Lately I have been extremely busy. I now have four students. Two of them only work 10-20 hours a week, but still I feel like I have to make sure they are progressing so that they can learn some stuff and also so that they can help out with experiments and move towards a point where they will get their masters if that is their plan/path. My friend who went with me to IEEEVR in Reno and who has been here a lot of the last 18 months I have been here- will be leaving for Pittsburgh, PA in late July. I will be super sad when she leaves here. She is really sweet and takes good care of me by listening and giving feedback. Oscar is travelling right now. It feels like he has been travelling a lot lately- and I think he has. I'm so happy for him that he can get some travelling in- but I think by the end of this coming summer some normalcy would be nice for both of us. Travelling makes you tired sometimes- even if it is really exciting!
Anyway, today I finished a project that I have been working on since mid-January. My boss decided he wanted a grant written on a really cool topic and I volunteered to help out. I sure hope that the grant gets funded as I haven't seen him more excited about an idea and I think he's had a lot of good ones. I also think he chose some really good Universities and Industry partners to help get the work done.
Just like my work and how crazy futuristic some of it is- virtual realities training people for everything!! and evaluating all human activity at the lowest level, well this idea for the grant is even much more futuristic.
The basic idea is one that has been in many science fiction books, movies and cartoons; and from what I've learned over the last three months it really may be come a reality in my lifetime. One day a normal person should be able to fly a private vehicle. What that vehicle will look like is unclear, however it is pretty clear that a lot of flight will have to be autonomous and that it would have to be pretty appealing and comfortable for people to make a huge jump to flying vehicles.
I'll add two photographs in here which I think are really interesting. One is from a company in Israel, Urban Aeronautics, and the other is the Jetsons! :) I loved that show when I was a kid. Lets all keep our fingers crossed that this grant gets funded, because it will likely mean that I get to go flying a bit- if not in real aerial vehicles (helicopters, planes) definitely more in simulators! :)
Though I'm always so sad that I'm so far from my family and where I feel at home-- I am so glad that i like my job and I'm so grateful that Oscar came to Germany to be with me for the last 5 months. It has been a lot nicer with him around!!
He is really sweet and I can't wait to see him this coming weekend and introduce him to my family next week at my younger brother's wedding.
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