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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:19:47 CST
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- From: "(John Gabriel)" <gabriel@EID.ANL.GOV>
- Subject: Introducing myself
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- (gabriel 921111 0945CST)
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- I realised last night that I had started a conversation on the net without
- proper introduction. Tsk tsk.
-
- I am a computer jock, close to retirement. Bill Cunningham introduced
- me to the net. In the past I have made my living as an Electrical
- Engineer and as a theoretical physicist doing Group Theory and Quantum
- Mechanics.
-
- These days I work on software questions of various kinds. The proximate
- cause of my participation in CSG is an interest in decision support, and,
- more remotely, a concern to have wise government, so as to avoid civil
- unrest, war, and other things we would all sooner not have happen. It
- seems to me that fits well with the etymology of "Cybernetics."
-
- I met Bill C. some years ago when we both laboured to see that Uncle
- Sam's money was wisely spent in a project whose intention was to
- extract needles from haystacks of messages about battles. Not very
- different from extracting needles of truth from haystacks of press
- releases about elections.
-
- Now, I work on proofs about computer programs for amusement - hence the
- interest in attribute spaces and Hamming distances, and in information
- theoretic aspects of the theory of computation. From there it is not a
- great leap to PCT, and to application of ideas from PCT in decision
- support.
-
- John Gabriel (gabriel@eid.anl.gov)
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