Samsung

Yesterday (Friday) we made a visit to Samsung. Jim Foley was in town on his way to Singapore, so the three of us (Jim, Venkat and I) spent the afternoon visiting with some of the Samsung research folks. The facilities were very impressive and it looks like they have a lot of interesting projects going on there. We had some discussions about potential collaborations between Samsung and GT both with respect to research as well as education and training. We'll probably be making some more trips out there in the coming months as things progress.

One of the researchers we met is a GT alum, and it was nice to hear her say "y'all". Probably the first time I heard that since leaving Atlanta.

The Samsung guys took us out to a really nice traditional Korean restaurant. There was food-a-plenty, and what was also interesting was that there were some dishes where the waitresses prepared the food and then actually fed you (i.e., they stuck food directly in your mouth using chopsticks, so all you had to do was say "ahhhh"). That was certainly a novel experience. We also learned a bit about Korean business drinking practices, which some of my friends had given me some warning about. Needless to say, we went through a lot of bottles of soju.