Dear L F Huang,
Trieste (where the code originates) is the main shipping port in Italy for coffee imports, and the city has a long tradition of coffee houses and of coffee producers (the beans themselves are grown elsewhere). The most famous of these companies is "Illy", that is extremely tech savy - this below is an article that the company founder wrote a few years ago for "Scientific American": http://www.podmerchant.com/coffee/complexity-of-coffee.pdf What might intrigue you is that we invented the name while waiting in Beijing airport a flight to Xi'an - we were in Beijing for a summer school at the institute of physics (2004), and we decided to spend the weekend in the old capital. Here is the team at work - I believe Shobhana, Ralph and Carlo are missing, among those that were there : http://quasiamore.mit.edu/personal/xian/espresso.jpg nicola -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Nicola Marzari Department of Materials Science and Engineering 13-5066 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139-4307 USA tel 617.4522758 fax 2586534 marzari at mit.edu http://quasiamore.mit.edu
