ISSAC

I arrived in Austria last night totally exhausted after spending some time in Amsterdam with Michael Abshoff, Hendrik Lenstra (who was my Ph.D. thesis adviser), Waldek Habisch (the FriCAS guy), and others.

All the students working on funded projects with me this summer have setup blogs, and I'm encouraging them to blog very frequently about their work on Sage. I will start doing the same. Here are links to their blogs:

• Michael Abshoff
  
• Elliot Brossard
  
• Gary Furnish
  
• Mike Hansen
  
• Emily Kirkman
  
• Robert Miller
  
• Brett Nakashima
  
• Yi Qiang
  
• Chris Swierczewski
  
• Igor Tolkov
  

The last thing I did on Sage was spent nearly a week working on making a release that has fixes for numerous subtle build (and other) bugs on a very wide range of Linux distributions and hardware, e.g., Itanium2's and 64-bit Pentium 4's.