In other news...

I've decided to accept the Charles River Analytics offer. (Not that I was really entertaining that many offers, really.) CRA is an applied AI company that does contract work, mostly for the US government. Anyway, the pay is decent, I have 13 weeks of work, and it looks like things should be pretty interesting there. It's still got a startup kind of feel (being about 20 years old but still small), and it looks like at least a few pretty brilliant people work there - they take pride in being well-stocked in PhD's. I'll be working in the Cognitive Systems group - I'll post more about that as I learn more details.