Alexandre R.J. Francois

Breakfast in Downtown, near Wall Street. Today's stair number: 2

Walked from NYU on W. 4th Street to the American Museum of Natural History (79th and Central Park West), then walked all over the Museum, and then walked all the way back! Very happy to sit down for dinner... Today's stair number: 0

New York University at Washington Square. Today's stair number: 0

Looking to the East over the lake. Today's stair number: 0

The Chrysler Building. Today's stair number: 2

Tree, soft cloud and plane over the quad. The composition juxtaposes three dynamic elements that operate at very different time scales. Today's stair number: 3

A full sheet of stair number records (both sides are full!). Today's stair number: 3

Taping at the Channel 7 studios in Boston. The show will air in Boston on December 7, 2008 at 6:30am. Today's stair number: 5

Sun and clouds and lots of wind: a storm is coming! Today's stair number: 2

The Media Lab food bell: when food is available in the break room, a ring of the food bell (right) prompts users who subscribe to a networked notification service to take a look at the food from the comfort of their seat thanks to a networked overhead camera (upper left) and decide what to do about it. I sense a killer app port to the One Laptop Per Child. Today's stair number: 1

Fellowship graduation today. We are now in the books for posterity. Today's stair number: 3

The Fellows visit the Media Lab. Today's stair number: 1

Healthy eating program at MIT. Too bad the taste is often not part of the balance... Today's stair number: 1

Fluffy white. Today's stair number: 2

A blooming tree in the Bunting Quad. Today's stair number: 3

Last morning at the beach. Today's stair number: 1

Rose and cactus garden on Manhattan Beach. Today's stair number: 0

The last fiery oranges after sunset behind the Santa Monica Mountains. Today's stair number: 0

Manhattan Beach, early in the morning. Today's stair number: 0

Manhattan Beach in the late afternoon. Today's stair number: 0

A cast bronze sculpture by Nancy Helfant (1963). Today's stair number: 5

Radcliffe Seminar - day 2. Today's stair number: 1

Radcliffe Seminar - day 1. Today's stair number: 2

Home of (most of) the Science Fellows. Today's stair number: 2

Lilacs on the Radcliffe Yard. Today's stair number: 1

How long will spring last? Today's stair number: 1

On the verge of over-blooming. Today's stair number: 1

More Spring blooms. Today's stair number: 4

The infamous slanted CS conference room that has been known to make people nauseous... MIT 32-G449 decodes to room 449 on the Gates (as in Bill and Melinda) side of the Stata Center (built on the site of the real building 32). Today's stair number: 2

Visit at Brown University. Today's stair number: 1

Inside, a plaque reads: "Named for Mary Maxwell Gates and Beatrice Dworkin Ballmer whose sons William H. Gates III and Steven A. Ballmer envisioned a vibrant setting for Harvard students and faculty in which to foster knowledge in computer science and electrical engineering for the benefit of all - October 12, 1999" Today's stair number: 2