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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Jim Joyce
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References: <Jun.3.16.11.31.1993.18466@net.bio.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 02:17:51 GMT
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In article <Jun.3.16.11.31.1993.18466@net.bio.net> mcb@net.bio.net
(Michael C. Berch) writes:
>I am very sorry to bring the news to the net community that Jim Joyce,
>well-known and long-time member of the UNIX and Usenet community,
>passed away in San Francisco last week (May 27)....
>Some personal notes:
>I first met Jim as a sophomore at Berkeley in 1975, when I took his
>Computing for the Humanities class, which was done with punch-cards,
>FORTRAN, and a CDC 6400. Towards the end of the course he began
...
>couple of years later introduced me to Prof. Brendan O Hehir of the
>English department, for whom I did my first real programming work
>(with Jim's help) on his _Polyglossary to Finnegans Wake_.
>
>Sometime in the late '70s Jim presented me with an "Official
>Card-Carrying UNIX Hacker" card, which I accepted somewhat awkwardly.
I, too still have my card.
Jim was prized for his application of computers to non-numeric problems.
His literary analysis of Hemmingway's "The Sun Also Rises" using the
style and diction programs at a time when most people never even heard of
word processing and personal computers or even thought of spell checking.
He was typically one with cool head and even disposition. A 60s-icon.
I first meet Jim at one of the Santa Monica meetings BEFORE it was called
Usenix. I wish we in NASA could have used his services in early Unix wars.
I am honored to have known this man.
The computer world is a little sadder place for its loss of Jim.
He will be missed.
Follow ups to appropriate groups.
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
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A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya