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| Your personal background. | |
| I live in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, in Portland, Oregon. I started my career as an electronics engineer at IBM at the Glendale Lab in Endicott, NY, and eventually migrated into software development after joining Tektronix. I worked for 4 years in the simulation group at Mentor Graphics and later worked for Zycad, which made special-purpose "hardware accelerated" simulators that attached to workstations, for logic and fault simulation. Along the way I got into the business of concert promotion, which lasted for around 12 years. This is a very interesting and often a very lonely occupation. I produced hundreds of events in that time, and did not manage to break even but had a lot of enjoyment and anxiety. A sparsely filled concert hall is a hard thing to deal with but a crowd of antsy fans wanting tickets that are no longer available is worse! I had the honor of working with and on behalf of outstanding performance artists. | |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home | |
| I am very interested in physics and have only enough background to be able to read articles and books written for the lay reader. When I was in graduate school a professor attempted to teach our willing class the General Theory of Relativity. Tensor analysis was two superscripts and a subscript too many for me, I am afraid! I hope that the LIGO experiments live up to their promise. I attended a lecture by Kip Thorne several years ago and have been excited about this ever since. I have also kept tabs on the Gravity Probe B satellite by means of the email updates, and would like to be able to comprehend frame dragging someday. Another thing I would like to comprehend better is the Exclusion Principle. I have noted that the Exclusion Principal is far less popular amongst my New Age friends than the Uncertainty Principal, but that's not physics! | |
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