Rewrite in Progress: 2020 02 02 See also: SentimentalStargazer.com
Thinking Talking Computing
There are more connections in our heads than stars in the Milky Way Galaxy!!
All things by immortal power,
Near and Far
Hiddenly
To each other linked are,
That thou canst not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star.
— Francis Thompson
____________________________________________________
I have been gathering tools since the 1940s,
first as a boy growing up in a machine shop,
then as physics led me into supercomputing in the 1960s,
next building operating systems, languages, databases, networks.
Now we will use these tools and gather more from
math, biology, sociology, even linguistics and music.
Our goal is to build a simulator to study how we think.
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Our simulator - work in progress:
Our simulator is built of networks and queues. It is different from most.
Rather than focus only on the activity of the links between nodes,
we will make the nodes programmable, consisting of queues with servers.
. . . more to come . . .
____________________________________________________
Some history and tools:
1 - Research - Thinking, Talking, Computing
Long ago, I worked on the first supercomputer.
At first I thought computers were only for numbers,
Then I was given the task of writing a parser.
What’s a parser? I asked.
Parsers recognize words, I was told.
And from there, the story leads into . . .
the deep space between thought and language.
There I keep encountering the question:
How can a two year old talk?
____________________________________________________
2 - Models - Modelling, measuring, controlling the real world by simulation - work in progress
Here we will investigate things that move:
- humans
- traffic
- work in factories and warehouses
- programs in computers
__________________________________________________________________________
3 - BeeTeam Software - Systems Software
I create systems software
invisible programs hidden inside your computer
like operating systems, networks, databases, languages . . .
Systems software
makes concrete things like chips and wires, zeros and ones,
into abstract things that you use :
like email, spreadsheets and web browsers, . . .
__________________________________________________________________________
4 - Projects - EXAMPLES - two from various real projects I have done:
Factories: Warehouses:
__________________________________________________________________________
5 - ABOUT ME - my history, tech info, resumé cv
Antelope Flats at sunrise:
__________________________________________________________________________
CONTACT: Gareth Harris, email: garethharris@mac.com.