Charles has made it into the paper again.

That's right, media-hound Charles Isbell, along with putter-wielding professor Paul Viola, tie-wearing professor Randy Davis, mean Unihoc'er Jill Fekete, and "huffing and puffing grad student Polina Golland," have all found another 15 minutes of fame thanks to a slow news day at the Globe's Living|Arts section and the "AI Olympics XIV."

Charles, of course, steals the spotlight, due in no small part to his athletic looks and excellent color vision. I personally thought "judging the eggplants" had a more poetic ring, or at least more potential to be a Skacore band name, but what do I know about poetry? I'm just a work-obsessed nerd that needs to be pried from my keyboard. I even had my ass kicked (by the deadly Sara Billey) with a wiffle sabre. But, I want my extra can of Surge for only shooting one over par on Raquel's "treacherous" Swiss-Miss mini-golf hole.

For the full story, see the Globe article, but if you'd rather share a beverage with "some of the best minds that MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory can muster," (kind of like saying the best lunch you can buy at Goosebeary's) come to today's

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7th floor playroom January 30, 1998 5:30 pm