All,
Actually the name is Sicilian ... although Jack is from Chicago as I recall.
rbw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert G. Brown" <r...@phy.duke.edu>
To: "James P Lux" <james.p....@jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "Beowulf Mailing List" <beowulf@beowulf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:56:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Lux, James P wrote: > Ran across the following quoted line
from a SciGen created paper that was > accepted to a conference and is getting
some play on slashdot: > > "We performed a quantized emulation on Intelâ(TM)s
mobile telephones to > prove the work of Italian mad scientist J. Dongarra.” >
> Recognizing the name, I’m prompted to ask the real question, is Jack an >
Italian mad scientist? Italian I couldn't say -- his name sounds Irish to me.
Mad -- well, he didn't act mad in our last conversation. Not even angry. Crazy?
Possibly. All the Irish are Crazy. rgb > > The rest of the paper is full of
interesting sentences: > " While such a hypothesis is entirely a theoretical
ambition, it rarely > conflicts with the need to provide operating systems to
computational > biologists.” As are, apparently, the authors of random slashdot
authors...;-) >
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/23/2321242 > Robert G.
Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525
email:r...@phy.duke.edu
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