Owen Densmore
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:54:41 -0800
On Feb 25, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Grant Holland wrote:
Dear FRIAM...I'm excited and happy to subscribe to the group. (Thanks for the invite Stephen, - and David.) For many years I have architected and implemented large-scale (mostly Java) enterprise software (applications and systems) for corporations and gov. institutions mostly in North America on behalf of a number of major computer systems vendors (e.g. Sun).
...Hi Grant, sorry to be so late responding. I was at Sun as well, I suspect our paths crossed. http://backspaces.net/
I'm taking CS500 at UNM this semester, and Cris Moore, the prof and SFI faculty member made an interesting comment:
We find in physics that the simplest, most beautiful solutions are the most likely to be correct, almost as if there were a wonderful, elegant designer behind things. While in constructed things, like computer science, we often find the reverse: they are very hard to understand and often the best solutions have an Advisory trying to make a worst case solution intractable.
Apologies to Cris for the misquoting, but an interesting thought.Are you here in Santa Fe? Linkedin has a profile including Grant Holland & Associates. If so, you may be interested in the SFComplex: http://sfcomplex.org where a lot of complexity goes on!
-- Owen
On Feb 25, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Grant Holland wrote:
Dear FRIAM...I'm excited and happy to subscribe to the group. (Thanks for the invite Stephen, - and David.) For many years I have architected and implemented large-scale (mostly Java) enterprise software (applications and systems) for corporations and gov. institutions mostly in North America on behalf of a number of major computer systems vendors (e.g. Sun).
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