I thought this may be of interest to the group. He is credited with writing a parallel-processing computer program that finds "a few eigenvalues in a sparse Hermitian matrix that contains as many as 100 million diagonal elements, faster, using less memory, than do other comparable eigensolver programs." November 2003 edition, p.38, under "Eigensolver for a Sparse, Large Hermitian Matrix." -- % Randy Yates % "...the answer lies within your soul %% Fuquay-Varina, NC % 'cause no one knows which side %%% 919-577-9882 % the coin will fall." %%%% <yates@ieee.org> % 'Big Wheels', *Out of the Blue*, ELO http://home.earthlink.net/~yatescr
E. Robert Tisdale In NASA Tech Briefs
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good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself seriously. :-) r b-j In article Oc_pb.9703$9M3.1681@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net, Randy Yates at yates@ieee.org wrote on 11/04/2003 22:34:> I thought this may be of interest to the group. He is credited > with writing a parallel-processing computer program that finds > "a few eigenvalues in a sparse Hermitian matrix that contains as > many as 100 million diagonal elements, faster, using less memory, > than do other comparable eigensolver programs." > > November 2003 edition, p.38, under "Eigensolver for a Sparse, > Large Hermitian Matrix."
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robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> writes:> good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself seriously.He does! http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html :-) Ciao, Peter K. -- Peter J. Kootsookos "I will ignore all ideas for new works [..], the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope." - Julius Frontinus, c. AD 84
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In article s68vfpzbcrm.fsf@mango.itee.uq.edu.au, Peter J. Kootsookos at p.kootsookos@remove.ieee.org wrote on 11/05/2003 00:33:> robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> writes: > >> good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself seriously. > > He does! > > http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html > > :-)"... tiny but very vocal clique of young programmers who know just enough about DSP to be really dangerous ..." hard for me to take that seriously. at nearly 48, it makes me feel warm to be reckoned a "young programmer" who is "really dangerous". now to put my creaky bones to bed. r b-j
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Peter J. Kootsookos wrote:> robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> writes: > > >>good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself seriously. > > > He does! > > http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html >How disappointing not to find myself on the blacklist - note to self: must try harder in future. ;-) Paul
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robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> wrote in message news:<BBCDFDB8.54D1%rbj@surfglobal.net>...> In article s68vfpzbcrm.fsf@mango.itee.uq.edu.au, Peter J. Kootsookos at > p.kootsookos@remove.ieee.org wrote on 11/05/2003 00:33: > > > robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> writes: > > > >> good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself seriously. > > > > He does! > > > > http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html > > > > :-) > > "... tiny but very vocal clique of young programmers who know just enough > about DSP to be really dangerous ..." > > hard for me to take that seriously. at nearly 48, it makes me feel warm to > be reckoned a "young programmer" who is "really dangerous". now to put my > creaky bones to bed. > > r b-jHeh... just about the one person I'm aware of here who actually fits the spec (age, experience, attitude) to get on that list is me... Where do I apply to get on that list? Rune
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allnor@tele.ntnu.no (Rune Allnor) wrote in news:f56893ae.0311050335.7f355b63@posting.google.com:> robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> wrote in message > news:<BBCDFDB8.54D1%rbj@surfglobal.net>... >> In article s68vfpzbcrm.fsf@mango.itee.uq.edu.au, Peter J. Kootsookos >> at p.kootsookos@remove.ieee.org wrote on 11/05/2003 00:33: >> >> > robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> writes: >> > >> >> good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself >> >> seriously. >> > >> > He does! >> > >> > http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html >> > >> > :-) >> >> "... tiny but very vocal clique of young programmers who know just >> enough about DSP to be really dangerous ..."And Jerry Avins is retired.......>> >> hard for me to take that seriously. at nearly 48, it makes me feel >> warm to be reckoned a "young programmer" who is "really dangerous". >> now to put my creaky bones to bed. >> >> r b-j > > Heh... just about the one person I'm aware of here who actually fits > the spec (age, experience, attitude) to get on that list is me... > > Where do I apply to get on that list?I tried to get on the list when E Bob was actively being a nuisance. We should all be glad that he crawled back into his cave. -- Al Clark Danville Signal Processing, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Purveyors of Fine DSP Hardware and other Cool Stuff Available at http://www.danvillesignal.com
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Al Clark <dsp@danvillesignal.com> wrote in message news:<Xns942A62C116647aclarkdanvillesignal@66.133.130.30>...> allnor@tele.ntnu.no (Rune Allnor) wrote in > news:f56893ae.0311050335.7f355b63@posting.google.com: > > > robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> wrote in message > > news:<BBCDFDB8.54D1%rbj@surfglobal.net>... > >> In article s68vfpzbcrm.fsf@mango.itee.uq.edu.au, Peter J. Kootsookos > >> at p.kootsookos@remove.ieee.org wrote on 11/05/2003 00:33: > >> > >> > robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> writes: > >> > > >> >> good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself > >> >> seriously. > >> > > >> > He does! > >> > > >> > http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html > >> > > >> > :-) > >> > >> "... tiny but very vocal clique of young programmers who know just > >> enough about DSP to be really dangerous ..." > > And Jerry Avins is retired....... > > > >> > >> hard for me to take that seriously. at nearly 48, it makes me feel > >> warm to be reckoned a "young programmer" who is "really dangerous". > >> now to put my creaky bones to bed. > >> > >> r b-j > > > > Heh... just about the one person I'm aware of here who actually fits > > the spec (age, experience, attitude) to get on that list is me... > > > > Where do I apply to get on that list? > > I tried to get on the list when E Bob was actively being a nuisance. > We should all be glad that he crawled back into his cave.Naw. He's just moved over to: dBforums � Usenet Groups � comp.lang.* � comp.lang.c � Why are you still using C? where they seem to be as fond of him as you guys are. I guess you'd have to know him to understand... Not that I recommend that. Ken Asbury
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robert bristow-johnson wrote:> In article s68vfpzbcrm.fsf@mango.itee.uq.edu.au, Peter J. Kootsookos at > p.kootsookos@remove.ieee.org wrote on 11/05/2003 00:33: > > >>robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> writes: >> >> >>>good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself seriously. >> >>He does! >> >>http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html >> >>:-) > > > "... tiny but very vocal clique of young programmers who know just enough > about DSP to be really dangerous ..." > > hard for me to take that seriously. at nearly 48, it makes me feel warm to > be reckoned a "young programmer" who is "really dangerous". now to put my > creaky bones to bed. > > r b-jYou young whippersnapper*, I was nearly 70 when I made that list. Jerry ___________________________ * I like that phrase. A judge once called me that (when I was one) as he dismissed the charge against me. -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
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Rune Allnor wrote:> robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> wrote in message news:<BBCDFDB8.54D1%rbj@surfglobal.net>... > >>In article s68vfpzbcrm.fsf@mango.itee.uq.edu.au, Peter J. Kootsookos at >>p.kootsookos@remove.ieee.org wrote on 11/05/2003 00:33: >> >> >>>robert bristow-johnson <rbj@surfglobal.net> writes: >>> >>> >>>>good for E.Bob. now if only he would start taking himself seriously. >>> >>>He does! >>> >>>http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html >>> >>>:-) >> >>"... tiny but very vocal clique of young programmers who know just enough >>about DSP to be really dangerous ..." >> >>hard for me to take that seriously. at nearly 48, it makes me feel warm to >>be reckoned a "young programmer" who is "really dangerous". now to put my >>creaky bones to bed. >> >>r b-j > > > Heh... just about the one person I'm aware of here who actually fits the > spec (age, experience, attitude) to get on that list is me... > > Where do I apply to get on that list? > > RuneI'm not sure anyone knows, I'm on it and I don't know :) -Lasse
