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In his article Francois Pinard <pinard%icule.UUCP@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU>
(Francois Pinard) writes:

>The relation of the following article with GNU?  It is just that
>Richard Stallman has been one of the awardees, in the past.  All
>remarkable people, indeed...

	Professor Blinn is indeed an all-around great guy.  I took a class
from him, advised sysadmins for the Caltech Graphics Lab affiliated with
the JPL Graphics Lab where he works [worked?], and saw the results of his
collaboration on the series "The Mechanical Universe" and "Beyond the
Mechanical Universe".  Considering that he's been a mainstay of the graphics
community and continues to be highly productive, I am not too surprised that
he was so honored.

	And unless he's got something going on the side, he has no connection
with the GNU project.  Some of the members of the Caltech Graphics group have
contributed a little to the corpus of GNU code, but it's been informal.
He or one of his collegues at the Caltech and JPL Graphics Labs will
probably set me straight.  [Hi guys!  Has Tim scheduled his defense yet? :-]

		Joseph Beckenbach
		formerly of Caltech CS Department
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