I've been at Providence Airport waiting out a 2-hour delay, so here's a post about today.

Breakfast started at 8am in the hotel restaurant, and then to a Research Advisory Board meeting for 30 minutes until 9am. John distributed shrinkwrapped sets of postcards from January's Snowflake-A-Thon (1). Chris Csikszentmihalyi took a picture of me with his Sidekick II (2). The day's main program began with Dan Ariely's talk on the Psychology of Honesty and Dishonesty (3). I finished the last slide of my PowerPoint presentation based on a discussion woth John's student Burak Arikan, who is developing a new interface for web-based project management (4). Then designer Ayse Birsel described the development process behind Herman Miller's Resolve office furniture system (5). Five of the sponsors, including myself, each presented quick PowerPoints on various parts of the Physical Language Laboratory's new web services-like platform they've named SMPL. My lunch was with the workshop support team, and then some of us took one last walk on the beach (6).

- mike lee - providence, ri