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The first , in March , took in New York ; a conference at Princeton University in New Jersey ; seminars at NEC Research and Drexel University in Philadelphia ( where who should turn up but Robert Aish , a friend from Essex days thirty years ago ) ; a " distinguished visiting lecture " at Texas A & M University ; a visit to ex-colleague Lloyd Smith ( the man who originally hired Ian at Waikato ) at New Mexico Highlands University ; Grand Falls , Colorado ; and the annual Data Compression Conference at Snowbird , a ski resort outside Salt Lake City . Collections have been produced in Chinese , Arabic , and Maori ; UNESCO has produced a French collection on the Sahel region of Africa , and the Pan American Health Organization has produced a Spanish " Virtual Disaster Library " ( the name sounds better in Spanish ) . We visited Monterey and had a Steinbeck fest : Cannery Row , the Palace Flophouse , all those fictitious joints from Steinbeck 's novels . We spent a magical half-hour with dolphins all around Beulah , one of which did ten spinning jumps just in front of the boat , until they simultaneously shot off at top speed , leaping high out of the water , evidently terrified by some nameless monster of the deep .