Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, September 26, 2002

[Item Permalink] Who am I? -- Comment()
I wrote some personal info to the About document of this weblog:
My science background is in physics and applied mathematics. Since graduating I have worked for about 12 years in the field of computational science: supercomputers, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, programming, and mathematical software.

My name is printed on the cover of about 50 books. I have published over 250 articles in journals, newspapers and magazines. I have also organized about two dozen courses, some short 1-3 day courses, some longer full semester courses and seminars.

Currently I lead a multi-disciplinary group of 12 experts (half of them are doctorates). I also have a small career as a columnist for an IT magazine in Finland.

If you are interested in my background, check the CV in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Or have a look at books written or edited by me and available in PDF format.

Is this a good introduction? Who am I?


[Item Permalink]  -- Comment()
Microsoft Internet Explorer X 5.2.2: "Microsoft has released security updates to Internet Explorer for Mac OS X and classic Mac OS." [MacMegasite]


[Item Permalink] Apple contribution to open source -- Comment()
Apple has again contributed to the open source community. MacMegasite writes about the Jaguar Open Source Update: "The Darwin team has announced three major Open Source updates based on Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar": a Darwin 6.0.1 operating system release, several new Open Directory Plug-ins, and the first Open Source release of Rendezvous source code." Hopefully the Rendezvous standard takes off and makes computing easier for all of us.