Moving to Kyoto

I recently received final confirmation for my PhD scholarship at Kyoto University, which means that I'll most definitely, awesomely, be moving to Japan very soon. I start in early October 2006, and the course is three years full-time. Hence I'll finish up my work at CSIRO in September, by which time I will have worked there for 7 years.

Although I'll have ample opportunity to improve my Japanese, the program I applied specifies that I write my thesis in English. I'll be researching information retrieval in real world and virtual environments, in Tanaka Lab. The lab works on interesting projects like video and geographical search, Croquet, and massage chair interfaces for web browsing.

Nearby:

• Mt. Lambda, where a god of lambda calculus lives.
• FSIJ runs a Kyoto Codefest, involving some people from my lab.
• wikitravel:Kyoto