þaÇRþnGRiD 80þbPh h  U 1 noah@june.cs.washington.edu Wed Jan 18 17:06 114/6586 Longer message U 2 noah@june.cs.washington.edu Thu Feb 2 19:42 21/835 did I send you U 3 qat!rodp Thu Feb 16 13:35 51/1716 Hello from DFW U 4 nqc!rodp Fri Apr 7 10:47 40/1184 new department >N 5 noah@june.cs.washington.edu Mon Jul 3 14:44 29/1350 Mike Cerceo leaves &   At EOF & 1 1  Message 1: From noah@june.cs.washington.edu Wed Jan 18 17:06:30 1989 Received: by bdmrrr.bdm.com (3.2/smail2.5/10-3-87) id AA01230; Wed, 18 Jan 89 17:06:26 EST Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.0/3.03) id AA02641; Tue, 10 Jan 89 17:30:43 EST Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.59/6.13+) id AA10675; Tue, 10 Jan 89 14:30:26 PST Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 14:30:26 PST From: noah@june.cs.washington.edu (Rick Noah Zucker) Return-Path: Message-Id: <8901102230.AA10675@june.cs.washington.edu> To: jaeger@bdmrrr.bdm.com, strang@bdmrrr.bdm.com Subject: Longer message Status: RO  I promised a longer message than I had sent via US Mail. So, I am now getting around to it.  As I said, it was nice not being so pressured this past quarter. I was teaching. I was not supposed to be. However, due to some schedule changes that I do not want to go into, I was teaching this past quarter --More--  (not the quarter I wanted to teach) and teaching a class I did not want to teach (the very first intro class). My class had experienced C pro- grammers, COBOL programmers and people who had never programmed before. It makes it difficult to figure out where to target things. Well, at least I am done with that. This last quarter I sat in on the AI class (I had taken it last year). We have a new guy who just finished at MIT in June who started in July. We really did not have any true AI people, just vision people. The sort of class they taught for an intro AI class is what you would expect at a smaller university or a college. It was not the appropriate level for a top ten school. Anyway, I sat in the class and did most of the reading. It really was different having the class taught by someone who knows the field and who gives you modern papers to read. Although I have taken the second AI class before, I am going to take it again since this guy, Dan Weld, is teaching it also. I will be doing research with him this coming quarter as well. He did his dissertation on qualitative physics. However, the work we will be doing will involve planning. I am looking forward to finally doing some research as I have not had a chance to do any since getting here. I will also be taking a german class to help keep me sharp (although I do go to weekly meetings of the german table). Not working quite as hard as I have in the past does mean that I --More--  may be here a little longer than I would otherwise. However, getting out of here rarely happens quickly, and I would rather have some pleasant memories of it happening.  We have been getting all sorts of new equiptment (we always are) within the past year. The department's backbone machine (june, the one you send mail to), is now a VAX 8550 with 96 megabytes (a professor on the lab policy committee said they wanted to get enough memory so that it would never have to page again). We have also been getting into a lot of parallel stuff lately. We have a 20 processor Sequent machine for parallel research. We also have around ten DEC Fireflies. These are multi-processor (5 processors) workstations. They use the same chip as micro-vax IIs and IIIs do. The grad student workstations have been upgraded to micro-vax IIIs, which makes a big difference. When they were only micro-vax IIs, june had to be really loaded to make it worthwhile to do your processing on the workstation. However, these new ones are a lot better (11/780 = Micro-vax II = 1.0; Microvax III = 2.7-4.2; 8550 is supposed around 6.0. However, that is hard to guage for a machine that has so much more specialized hardware (I/O channels, faster disks, etc.; the huge memory makes a difference too)).  My knee is a lot better since the surgery last June. They did --More--  the right knee this time (it was the left while I was in D.C.). We thought the problem would turn out to be the same, but it was different (it was the medial femoral cartilage instead of the medial synovial plica). It healed much faster than the last time. I went hiking three weeks after the surgery (you saw me about 8-10 weeks after the operation). However, I was very cautious about what I did. There is no question that it is much better. However, I will wait and see what the future holds. Weekends backpacking and longer trips remain to be seen.  A few weeks ago I got my fifth roommate since moving to Seattle. I left the first one after a year. I wanted to be closer to the univers- ity and someone a little closer to my age (he was 21 and had never gone to college; his lifestyle was quite different). The guy I moved in with (a spanish guy from the international division of Microsoft) a year ago September moved out at the end of January to move in with some friends and to be three blocks from his girlfriend's. Then I had a fellow CS grad student. She moved out in the middle of Sept. to move in with her boyfriend (another CS grad student). Then I found a woman working towards a masters in social work, who was a big sports fan, so that worked well. However, she worked last year and did not get as much money from her student loan as she hoped for. So she could not afford the rent (she moved in with friends of her parents where she will not have to pay --More--  rent). My latest roommate is someone who was just hired by the CS Dept. Lab Staff. She is a little older (35), but we get along fine. The only question is: how long will she stay?  Another advantage of my not being quite so busy is that I have more time for a social life. Right now at the beginning of the quarter I am somewhat busy, but that is partially due to social committments that I made long ago. My social life has not advanced to the point that I have a girlfriend, but I am working on it.  Over the winter break Jesse Gordon visited me (since his brother- in-law works for an airline he gets cheap flights). We played bridge and did well the first time, but came in three boards below average the second time. Mike Cerceo was already out of town when Jesse got here and Janice Chaffee was busy, but Hugh did join us for dinner one night. There are a lot less people I know in Tacoma these days now that Mary Breeden, Marc and Bob Shumaker are gone. Cerceo says that they have twiced asked him about moving to Denver, which he is not that fond of doing (not that he dislikes Denver so much, but he would just like to stay somewhere; he also is not so happy with all the travel that he and Hugh are having to do to Denver).  --More--   Rick  P.S. More personalized messages will come at some undetermined time in the future.  & 2 2  Message 2: From noah@june.cs.washington.edu Thu Feb 2 19:42:23 1989 Received: by bdmrrr.bdm.com (3.2/smail2.5/10-3-87) id AA11647; Thu, 2 Feb 89 19:42:20 EST Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.1/3.03) id AA12338; Thu, 2 Feb 89 18:54:59 EST Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.59/6.13+) id AA06611; Thu, 2 Feb 89 15:54:45 PST Date: Thu, 2 Feb 89 15:54:45 PST From: noah@june.cs.washington.edu (Rick Noah Zucker) Return-Path: Message-Id: <8902022354.AA06611@june.cs.washington.edu> To: jaeger@bdmrrr.bdm.com, strang@bdmrrr.bdm.com Subject: did I send you Status: RO  I have a long message that I saved and was going to send to both of you shortly after New Year's. However, I don't remember if I ever sent it to you (I am organized :-)). Did you ever get it?  Rick  & 3 3  Message 3: From sundc!killer!sys1!techsup!qat!rodp Thu Feb 16 13:35:04 1989 Received: by bdmrrr.bdm.com (3.2/smail2.5/10-3-87) id AA22389; Thu, 16 Feb 89 13:34:59 EST Received: from Central.Sun.COM (texsun) by sundc.East.Sun.COM (3.2/SMI-3.2) id AA17270; Thu, 16 Feb 89 13:35:11 EST Received: from killer.UUCP by Central.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16327; Thu, 16 Feb 89 12:29:49 CST Received: by killer.Dallas.TX.US (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.10.3 #10.2) id ; Thu, 16 Feb 89 12:29 CST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 12:30 CST Received: by sys1 from techsup id: <00000175-890216110358-046@sys1.TANDY.COM> To: techsup!sys1!ninja!smu!texsun!sundc!bdmrrr!strang From: sundc!killer!qat!rodp (tech rep) Sent: Thu Feb 16 1989, 11:02:15 CST Subject: Hello from DFW Return-Receipt-To: sundc!texsun!rodp Status: RO   Will, --More--    Hello from Tandy Towers in Fort Worth. Just thought I would try out the uucp path and see if it worked. While I was there I didn't get the path for Michele, could you send it back to me if you get the chance. By the way, when I checked for paths from this end there appear to be tow available. Which of the two below do you recommend or does it make a difference:  techsup!sys1!ninja!smu!texsun!sundc!bdmrrr!strang techsup!sys1!motown!bellcore!rutgers!bdmrrr!strang  If questions arrise on a system, you may email to me and I will try to respond as quickly as possible. Type at you soon.  Rod Plant Computer Technical Services Tandy Corporation/Radio Shack -- Email Paths:  Direct ...!sys1!techsup!bubba!bumptink!rodp --More--  ...!trsvax!techsup!bubba!bumptink!rodp  Indirect ...!sys1!techsup!qat!rodp ...!trsvax!techsup!qat!rodp :   & 4 4  Message 4: From sundc!killer!sys1!techsup!nqccent!rodp Fri Apr 7 10:47:11 1989 Received: by bdmrrr.bdm.com (3.2/smail2.5/10-3-87) id AA09522; Fri, 7 Apr 89 10:47:07 EDT Received: from Central.Sun.COM (texsun) by sundc.East.Sun.COM (3.2/SMI-3.2) id AA26160; Fri, 7 Apr 89 09:25:36 EDT Received: from killer.UUCP by Central.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01491; Fri, 7 Apr 89 08:17:58 CDT Received: by killer.Dallas.TX.US (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.10.3 #10.2) id ; Fri, 7 Apr 89 06:19 CDT Message-Id: Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 06:19 CDT Received: by sys1 from techsup id: <00000061-890226023117-084-@sys1.TANDY.COM>To: techsup!sys1!ninja!smu!texsun!sundc!bdmrrr!strang From: sundc!killer!nqc!rodp (Rod Plant) Sent: Wed Mar 22 1989, 09:13:03 CST Subject: new department Return-Receipt-To: sundc!texsun!rodp Status: RO  Will,  --More--  Just thought I would send you mail giving you the new net address. I now work for National Quality Control. The net mail address is:  ...!trsvax!techsup!nqccent!rodp  Type at you later.   ----  Rod Plant Tandy Corporation/Radio Shack National Quality Control 01-0831  Email Path:  ...!nqccent!rodp   & 5 5  Message 5: From noah@june.cs.washington.edu Mon Jul 3 14:44:45 1989 Received: by bdmrrr.bdm.com (3.2/smail2.5/10-3-87) id AA09913; Mon, 3 Jul 89 14:44:40 EDT Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.1/3.04) id AA02008; Mon, 3 Jul 89 13:18:35 EDT Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.59/6.13+) id AA26448; Mon, 3 Jul 89 10:18:34 PDT Date: Mon, 3 Jul 89 10:18:34 PDT From: noah@june.cs.washington.edu (Rick Noah Zucker) Return-Path: Message-Id: <8907031718.AA26448@june.cs.washington.edu> To: davis@bdmrrr.bdm.com, jaeger@bdmrrr.bdm.com, jmg@zip.eecs.umich.edu, paw3c@dale4.acc.virginia.edu, strang@bdmrrr.bdm.com, ames!apple!xanadu!heh, ames!apple!xanadu!marcs Subject: Mike Cerceo leaves Status: R  Well, finally Mike Cerceo is leaving BDM. This Friday is his last day of work. Two weeks from today he is scheduled to start work at a placed called Morph (sp?) in Tacoma. They produce machines that do automatic fingerprint matching and/or verification. He is also --More--  checking into a job at a place that does commercial packet radio stuff.  I think this leaves about three people still working out here for BDM from the multitude that moved out here a few years ago. Mike is really looking forward to leaving. He said that Pat Riedl was not suprised, which suprised him.  Rick  &