Starting like any morning, we got up and went through our regular morning routine and met in the lobby at our appointed time. But things really got interesting almost right away. In walking to the BSD office for another morning class, we stopped to pick up breakfast at McDonald's. However, this wasn't the normal golden arches from home. Instead, we found that our orders were placed electronically from a large vertical touch screen and then the order was placed by machine and picked up when you saw your number appear on a digital screen above the cash register.
This seemed different from the screens in Wawa at home because there was no human interaction for meal preparation except when they put the meal in the bags. We then headed off for a morning of coding at BSD. The project work is getting more and more interesting. There was a good deal of excitement as they all emerged from the lab for lunch.
Today, we had sushi and sashimi with rice bowls. Others had some cooked meals, instead. We worked quickly today on finishing lunch as our afternoon was jam packed with more things to do.
We walked to a coach that was waiting for us and the driver took us to Victoria Peak. This is advertised as "Hong Kong's most popular attraction." One reaches the Peak via a marvel of technology, in its day, via the world's oldest funicular railway rising almost 1300 fee above sea level and at an incline of 27 degrees!!
Once up at the "Peak" we were able to see in 360 degrees around the specially built tower. The views of Victoria Harbor, the skyline of Hong Kong and much of Kowloon were just breathtaking. With just a brief walk the coach was waiting for us and we were off from the inspirational to the technical.
Today, we had sushi and sashimi with rice bowls. Others had some cooked meals, instead. We worked quickly today on finishing lunch as our afternoon was jam packed with more things to do.
We walked to a coach that was waiting for us and the driver took us to Victoria Peak. This is advertised as "Hong Kong's most popular attraction." One reaches the Peak via a marvel of technology, in its day, via the world's oldest funicular railway rising almost 1300 fee above sea level and at an incline of 27 degrees!!
Hong Kong University has some amazing programs in artificial intelligence and nanotechnology which involve robotics and 3-D micro-printing. Dr. Chris Roberts who directs this program was good enough to show us through the labs. He explained their programs, the design of a special robot that is being designed for 
crisis and rescue well as well well 3-D micro-printing that is working not in plastics but titanium, aluminum and copper. After the two million dollar robot showed us some of the competition level tasks he has been programmed to complete, we looked at printers the size of small rooms that do microscopic
crisis and rescue well as well well 3-D micro-printing that is working not in plastics but titanium, aluminum and copper. After the two million dollar robot showed us some of the competition level tasks he has been programmed to complete, we looked at printers the size of small rooms that do microscopic
printing of materials that are being designed for space travel and for medical procedures. Dr. Roberts was very impressed with our students and indicated that he would hope that he had encouraged some of them to pursue this kind of work for a career.He indicated that Hong Kong University would be very interested in having them consider looking at his program at his program following their graduation.
And then there was dinner.... a spanish tapas restaurant exposed us to so many things we would never have expected in Hong Kong. We had wonderful cheese and chorizo morsels, wonderful bites with ham, skewered chicken, lobster rolls, several different quiche and then a squid ink and seafood paella. And our students dug right in and enthusiastically tried it all. |
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