Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03498
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:43:38 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Busy, busy Mark T
At 7:19 AM -0000 5/21/99, Wilf Rigter wrote:
:My that must be painful!
:
:>Mark T most likely has to analize the waveforms passing through the Nvs
Well, ignoring the mis-spelling and the implied joke..
Mark doesn't take all that much experimental data to speak of. Yes, he is
almost always building one robot or another, on occasion he'll take
qualitative information from a 'scope (particularly when something isn't
working properly) but the vast bulk of his time is spent in marketing the
BEAM concept and dealing with the awful bureaucratic politics that exist
when you find yourself dealing with government agencies. There simply
isn't much in the way of recorded -data- in his notebooks, although the
people who might want to buy his stuff aren't as interested in it as we
might be. You might say that his lab notebooks are rather more full of
dreams.
What he needs (ok, what he could use) would be a bunch of undergraduate
students performing all of the tests and measurments that have been
suggested, but I honestly don't think he's got the time to do them himself
nor does he have the funding to support those jobs. The time he's got to
do true research is quite limited.
However, I still think he ought to be publishing more (and not the
overly-high level stuff that deals with what I happen to believe are
questionable links to chaos theory.)
Oh well.
jab
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