In 2013 I had many opportunities to add new items to my running collection — the states, provinces, and countries where I ran at least one mile outdoors (gyms do not count — it has to be an authentic outdoor experience, with the place’s wind in my hair and its dirt under my feet). The countries and the states that are in this collection at this time are:
Over this year I added 5 new states (Missouri, Tennessee, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Connecticut) and 3 new countries (Belgium, Netherlands, and Italy) to the collection. It was a great year.
I am planning to add as many, and hopefully more, in year 2014. Perhaps the next state will be Louisiana, which I always wanted to visit. Or Florida, which I had visited several times before starting this collection, but somehow not even once after. I recall swimming there, but do not recall running – it must be re-visited. And I must finally see Germany — Munich’s English Garden looks like a fantastic place to go for a nice long run. And it would be particularly wonderful to get to add a couple more continents to the collection, — we shall see how to make that happen!
About Maria Gorlatova
Dr. Maria Gorlatova is the Sternberg Family Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research centers on pervasive computing technologies, with a focus on spatial computing and next-generation augmented reality. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (Summa Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. She spent two years at Princeton University’s Electrical Engineering Department as an Associate Research Scholar and Associate Director of the Princeton University EDGE Lab. Dr. Gorlatova was named one of the N2Women Rising Stars and has received multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), the DARPA Director’s Fellowship, the IEEE ISMAR 2025 Best Paper Award, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications, and research awards from Meta, Cisco, and IBM. She served as the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023, the General Co-Chair of the 2025 NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing, and the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE SenSys 2025.
