Students, interns, and the center director of spatial@ucsb enjoyed a weekend retreat with great weather, beautiful nature, and spatial thinking at La Casa de Maria in Montecito. The group built camaraderie over meals, hikes, and other activities. Several work sessions were spent discussing how to improve specifications for core computations of spatial information. Students enjoyed learning more about the functional language, Haskell, and were eager to implement core computations using other languages like Python. A particular highlight of the retreat was a beautiful afternoon hike on the San Ysidro trail, which was lined with running creeks and wildflowers, and ended with a humble waterfall.
