First Impressions

So we've been in Santa Fe for almost a week now, and there have been two separate snow storms including one as I write this post, a little bit different from the sunny Santa Fe that we had envisioned. However, the people at the Santa Fe Complex have been very welcoming and made us feel at home, we're allowed to come and stay whenever we want at the complex and they've shown us some very cool things such as the sand table. The sand table has a camera and projector hooked up to it to allow for modeling events such as fires. The table is interactive such that you can use a laser pointer to position the start of fires and the position of aerial water drops. They have also given us a background in ambient computing, which essentially is an interactive room where one can drag, make, or modify things like data points, graphs or pictures.