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castle_religious * Here is one side of the cathedral within the castle. * 640 x 480 * (128KB)

front_castle_cathedral_courtyard_betweenCathandRoyalapts * When we got to the courtyard, there was a bagpiper in full highland regalia to greet us. He is standing infront of the cathedral's front from teh last picture. On the other side of this courtyard are the royal hall and royal apartments. In one of the rooms, Mary Queen of Scots purportedly gave birth to James IV. Right behind where I took this picture is the room that houses the crown jewels of Scotland, which are the second oldest in Europe. The crown jewels consist of a crown, sword, orb and scepter, and leading up to the room was an interesting museum documenting their history. * 640 x 480 * (125KB)

greatHall * This is a picture of the great hall in the castle. For some reason, the flash didn't help... * 640 x 480 * (118KB)

italk * This is Dr. Gopnik's talk on kids learning casual inference. This talk, and Paul Cohen's talk on Maps for Verbs, were my two favorite talks of the conference. * 640 x 480 * (122KB)

pretty_castle_view * Here's a nice shot of the castle with the sun setting on it. * 640 x 480 * (117KB)

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nationalgallery * This is one entrance to the National Gallery, which houses a fantastic collection of paintings. Unfortunately, I could only see the Renessaince and post-Ren exhibit and the Scottish artists exhibit because there were talks I wanted to hear. I was there for the conference after all :) * 640 x 480 * (120KB)

coolstreetband_piperdrum * These are street musicians outside of part of the National Gallery. They played cool traditional bagpipe and drum music. Edinburgh has lots of great street performers, but these were probably my favorite. * 640 x 480 * (127KB)

nationalgalleryentrace2 * This is another entrace to the National Gallery of Scotland. * 640 x 480 * (122KB)

newsonyrobot * Sony exhibited their new humanoid robot. You can one of the little guys on the table and another on the floor, infront of him. The robots did incredibly fluid dance routines which was fun. Then they showed off the stereo vision, real-time pathfinding. After a bried restart (the robot tried to escape the course!) the robot navigated the obstacle course by shuffling sideways between obstacles, going up and down stairs and even crawling underneath a table. All the planning was done real-time. It was impressive. * 640 x 480 * (119KB)

hollyroodhouse_oldestpart_1500tower * At the opposite end of the Royal Mile from the Castle is Hollyrood House Palace, which is the royal accomodation of the Queen of England in Scotland. It's a working palace, and the queen actually had a garden party there the day I arrived in Scotland. Anyways, the tower on the left is the oldest part of the palace, built in the 1500s, if I remember correctly. * 640 x 480 * (119KB)

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hollyroodhouse_courtyardfountain * The front courtyard holds this intricately carved fountain. * 640 x 480 * (126KB)

courtyard_hh_viewofcrags * This is a shot of the mountains from courtyard, which are supposed to be about 300,000,000 years old. * 640 x 480 * (122KB)

hh_entrance_scot_coatOfArms * Here is the entrance to the palace from the front courtyard, with the royal coat of arms of Scotland above it. * 480 x 640 * (114KB)

hh_entrace_scotCoatArms2 * This is a closer shot of the coat of arms of Scotland. * 640 x 480 * (127KB)

hh_innercourtyard_surroundedchambers * This is the innter courtyard of the palace. The architecture borrows this idea from the Greeks such that the columns increase in intricacy from the bottom floors to the top, although I forgot why. As you tour the palace, you follow the trail that visitors to the royals would have. In this trail, each room becomes more and more magnificent, culminating in the King's room. This was done to intimidate and impress visitors with the king (or queens) wealth and power. The most interesting part, in my opinion, were the rooms of Mary Queen of Scots. Again, there were no pics allowed inside, so you will just have to take my word :) * 640 x 480 * (124KB)

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