I ventured to the neighboring prefecture of Gunma for a hands on workshop on LoRaWAN sponsored by the Prefecture at a new Maebashi City business incubator with presentations by LoRaWAN sensor, gateway and systems vendors and the City of Ota.

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For the most part these past several weeks of late winter have been spent hibernating waiting for things to become warmer, but I am grateful to David (DHL) who last month visited Nagano on his way for cross country skiing before a conference and invited me to join him for an extravagant feast. David said he enjoys Japanese French food, so we made a reservation at a relatively new restaurant called La Rencontre on the back streets near Zenkoji Temple.

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I was asked to fill in as drink TA for the introductory computer science lecture at Brown University and to mix a pina colada for the professor (Andy van Dam) on stage. Forty years ago I served as drink TA for this same course with the same instructor. A big thank you to the present TAs for allowing me to usurp their fun and for providing this wonderful video.

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Smart Web Interaction Model with You (swimy) offline meet-up For the first time in four years, I spoke in front of a live audience. I delivered a short presentation about my explorations over the past several years with LoRa and IoT. I was grateful for the perceptive comments, engaging questions and frequent interruptions from everyone who attended and to our hosts, Tomoko, Nobuyuki, and their dogs Hanma and Tama for preparing a delectable feast of whole deep fried chicken, a big salad and other delectables with free flowing wine. [Read More]