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Re: Supercomputing Review Reborn.

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From: Karl Rowley
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:35
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In article <19vrjtINNmmp@network.ucsd.edu> spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) writes:
>In article <4fON037i914X00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> karl@uts.amdahl.com (Karl Rowley) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep21.064007.18990@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>>>In article <19dl18INNr79@network.ucsd.edu> spl@pitstop.ucsd.edu
>>>(Steve Lamont) writes:
>>>I noted:
>>>>>Norris Parker Smith is paying us a visit next Tuesday.
>>>>
>>>>Run for the hills!
>>>
>>>Of course Steve, you realize that NPS is reading this.
>>>You should hope he has sense of humor.  ;^)
>>>(Actually Mary Shafer is visiting that day, too.)
>>
>>Who are these people anyway?  We phillistines need to know this stuff.
>
>Norris Parker Smith is/was the Editor of Supercomputing Review (Smith
>is still with us, but SR is gone) and co-author, along with my
>ex-boss, Sid Karin (Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center),
>of _The Supercomputer Era_.
>
>I dunno about Mary Schafer other than she's a NASA person and is the
>current moderator of rec.food.recipes (to which I owe a Thai recipe). :-)
>
>But the central question has gone unasked until now:
>
>Who the hell is Eugene Miya? :-) :-) :-)
>

Actually, he's a fictional person.  NASA has developed a very complex AI 
program to monitor Usenet and repond to it.

The code name for the project was "Green Mirror", and this has evolved to
"Eugene Miya".


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From: karl@uts.amdahl.com (Karl Rowley)
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Subject: Re: Supercomputing Review Reborn.
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Date: 28 Sep 92 20:35:48 GMT
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