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Our next speaker takes very little time off. Well, ever since computers and E-mail made our lives so much easier, who does? But here we are. Anyway, when this genriemen does take time off, ifs to do things like work as an assistant chef in a leading French restaurant in the Northwest. He also has competed twice in the World Barbecue Championship in Memphis, Tennessee, and won first and second prizes—not at the same time—so this guy is really cooking. Also, his education includes certificates in mountain climbing, formula car racing and photography. He has degrees in math, geophysics, space physics and mathematical economics as well as a doctorate in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from Princeton.

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Myhrvold, N. (1999). I, Software. In: Denning, P.J. (eds) Talking Back to the Machine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2148-7_5

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