Duck, who previously traveled across the continent, has recently been busy exploring the East Coast.
First of all, he traveled to Canada! It was his first foreign trip – other than his trip here from China where he was originally manufactured 😀 – this was very exciting for him! He visited both Toronto and Ottawa. In Toronto, he got to see the CN Tower. In Ottawa, he was lucky enough to see the Christmas Light Show on the Parliament Hill.
After his Canadian trips, he stayed somewhat more local. He visited Cape Cod, where he stayed at Provincetown, MA, the gayest city in America. Spent time at the beach, visited lighthouses, and hung out with colorful locals 😀
On the same trip, he tried coffee milk, the official drink of Rhode Island, at the iconic Dave’s Coffee.
And once it started getting a little bit warmer, he took a trip to Catskills, too – and is now looking forward to more adventures!
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.
