Festival congratulations must be extended to michael, whose research has now been reported on news sources for the nerdy (Slashdot) and the rest of the world (CNN). It's not often that something that we CS majors work on is deemed important or interesting enough for both parties. In honor of this momentous achievement, I present the following haikus:

It "makes little noise"?
Hardly, says anyone who
works on Jolley 5.

It's hard to ignore
a big red trash can, unless
wedding guests are drunk.

After quotes from Bill,
section two, paragraph five:
Students wrote the code.

They wrote the programs
but not as photogenic
as the big red can?

I've written some code for the big guy, so I can personally vouch for the difficulty of michael's research. Movement code for Lewis has to interpret data from many different sensors simultaneously just to avoid ramming into guests, and this doesn't even take into account the face-finding algorithms required for the photography aspects.

Alas, celebrity is shortlived, as the public's attention has quickly turned from legitimate research to the news that Michael Jackson dangled a baby out a 4-story window.