[FRIAM] New Blood

2015-10-22 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, all. Beginning tomorrow my good friend, respected colleague, and China expert Paul Ropp will be with us again for about 4 weeks. You will recall that he joined us last fall for about the same amount of time. Dust off your China interests! Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus

Re: [FRIAM] New Blood!

2010-04-02 Thread sarbajit roy
Just a brief follow up: Bill Lauritzen's latest book is available on google books. [ http://books.google.com/books?id=g6jE_6P-o2kCprintsec=frontcoversource=gbs_v2_summary_rcad=0#v=onepageq=f=false ] Its truly amazing how using cut and paste off the Internet he has fleshed out his theories about

Re: [FRIAM] New Blood!

2010-04-01 Thread Russ Abbott
His website http://www.earth360.com/lauritzen_bill.html features him in pictures with various people. On has this. Mamikon and Lauritzen in front of the Project Mathematics office near Cal Tech. Mamokin developed a method of doing many standard calculus problems without the use of formulas or

Re: [FRIAM] New Blood!

2010-04-01 Thread Douglas Roberts
1984 -- That was just about when I was transitioning from my CP/M-based computing environments to Symbolics 3600s. Is it any wonder I'm a bit schizophrenic? --Doug On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Alan and I worked briefly together at Apple. We were