If any of you are in the area of Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), do come out. Let me know if you'd like help making arrangements. - Chris Lasher

:) - Deepak Singh

Nice poster design! - Michael Nielsen

I take only partial credit. Tim Driscoll came up with the brilliant idea of using wordle. After trying a couple of different resources for Deepak, I found gold in his Delicious feed, so we ran with that. Tim, a loyal Mac user, was able to get a lossless PDF of the wordle, which I imported into Inkscape. It took me a couple of draft layouts to come up with the idea of placing Deepak's talk title within the word cloud, and a few more revisions to up the cuteness factor with "Big" and "Connected". - Chris Lasher

Finally with the best job I could do in hand, June Mullins, a resident graphic designer at VBI, worked her magic, adding the bounding box to the wordle graphic and providing greater separation of detail in the information below it. A collaborative process that was a lot of fun. I'm really grateful to Tim and June for their outstanding work on it. - Chris Lasher

That's a great way to present a "snapshot" of visiting speakers. You could use their papers, website, FF, anything -- and potential audience can see at a glance what the person is "about". Brilliant. - Bill Hooker

In many ways, it's better than the "About the Speaker" bios. Those often contain interesting tidbits, but they often contain loads of really boring stuff, too. - Michael Nielsen

Go Deepak. - Richard Akerman

This inspired me as well, thank you: http://www.enroweb.com/blogsci... - Enro

Also makes a good "one figure" at www.epernicus.com, if you're stuck for ideas - Neil Saunders