Ronald P. Loui

Lake Road, Bay Village, OH r.p.loui @gmail

(All images and text © 2023-2025 RPL)





Current: Adjunct Full Professor of CSDS at CWRU. Past: Tenured Associate Professor of CS/CSE and Speaker of the Faculty of Engineering (elected, with courtesy Executive Committee vote), Faculty Representative to Board of Trustees Undergraduate Council, Chancellor's Day Speaker, etc., WUSTL.


Special Topics Course in Summer and Fall: AI (For Better or Worse)/Current Issues An exploratory seminar for technical and non-technical students on autonomous systems and automatic decision-making software. Prompt engineering will be examined, as well as systems that detect or combat AI. Within assistive, generative, and proxy decision deployments, we will consider recurring problems such as non-determinism, robustness, risk, bias, stale and erroneous data, small worlds and insufficiently expressive features, overfitting, polysemy, explanation, and verification. Perspectives to include engineering problem-solving, law, policy, and management. National concerns of labor, defense technology, and education also to be considered. The class is open to all majors. Students should have a strong background in either engineering, science, or computer science.


Also teaching Operating Systems Spring and Fall. Linux Scripting Tools in the Spring.

Finally done (after 4 yrs!) "Adding to the EU AI Liability Directive: Degree of Autonomy, Chain of Confidence, Inherent Flaws of Indecent Induction, and Mandatory Insurance, Second Edition of LAW OF ALGORITHMS (Cambridge U Press, in galleys) 2025. SNEAK PEEK AT PROOFS (not final edit)


Patents assigned to these companies cite my Wash U StL team's computer engineering work (not my patents, but our work presumably enabled or preceded their claims): Virtiv, Dell, Juniper Networks, HP, MainNerve, Protocol Acquisition, SiteSpect, Google, Fortinet, Throughputer, Amazon, Oracle, Cavium, IneoQuest, EMC, Gigamon, Lionic, Intel, FetchTech, IP Reservoir, Kuberre, Corel/JP Morgan Chase, SAP, Cisco, Roke Manor, Nokia, AT&T, Samsung, Canon, NetApp, Boeing, ETTRI, Advanced Micro Devices, Sharp, SRC, GTB, NXP, IBM, Archeo Futurus, Global Velocity, Exegy




SOME RECENT IEEE PAPERS (ETC) here
SOME CHAPTERS IN BOOKS here
SOME NEO TALKS here
SOME OLDER TALKS here
SCHOLAR.GOOGLE here


  • Our AI and Law papers are #1 among papers there in 1995 and #1 among papers there in 2012, #14 and #21 in the journal's full 30-year history

  • Our Artificial Intelligence paper is #8 among papers there in 1992

  • Our ACM Computing Surveys paper is #6 among papers there in 2000

  • My Computational Intelligence papers are #1 among papers there in 1986 and #2 among papers there in 1998, probably top-40 and top-60 in that journal's 38-year history

  • My Communications of the ACM paper is #14 among papers there in 1983 (out of 226 listed).

  • Our Custom Computing (FCCM) paper is #7-best cited in the full 30-year history of that conference and #1 among its papers in 2003.

  • Our ICAIL papers are #6 among papers at the conference in 1993, and #4 among papers from 1997


    Some unusual citation numbers (scholar.google.com, 9/19/23): • First paper (undergrad thesis): 358 cites • Most cited solo-authored papers: 358, 313, 175 cites • Most cited paper with doctoral student: 777 cites • Most cited paper with master's student: 391 cites • Most cited paper with undergrad student: 82 cites • Most cited patent: 234 cites • Most latent citation peak after publication: 28 years • 10th-best cited: 145 cites • top-20 articles: 10/20 solo authored, 16/20 without other cited authors at the time.




    YEAR	MAIN LANGS			MAIN OS				MAIN EDITOR	WHERE
    
    1975	Basic				paper				punch cards	8th/Punahou
    1976	DartmouthBasic			DTimeShare			volatile typing	Punahou
    1977	DartmouthBasic			DTimeShare			paper tape	Punahou
    1978	RealityDBBasic/Fortran		Pick/DTimeShare			ED		Punahou/IndustryDataSvcs
    1979	RealityDBBasic/Fortran		Pick/VMS			ED/EDT		Punahou/IndustryDataSvcs/Harvard
    1980	RealityDBBasic/Fortran/Forth	Pick/Pr1MOS/VMS			ED/EDT		HirotaEngineering/IndustryDataSvcs/Harvard
    1981	HarvardECL			Unix/TOPS10			vi		Harvard     ← U R HERE 
    1982	VHDL/StanfordSAIL/APL		Unix/TOPS20			vi		Harvard
    1983	c/ICON/Pascal/csh		Unix/VMS/Alto/AppleDOS		bravo		DEC/RochesterMS
    1984	c/ICON				BSD/Alto/OriginalMac		bravo		RochesterMS
    1985	c/LISP				BSD/Alto/OriginalMac		bravo		RochesterPhD
    1986	c/LISP				BSD/Alto/OriginalMac		bravo		RochesterPhD
    1987	c/LISP				BSD/Alto/OriginalMac		bravo		RochesterPhD
    1988	c/LISP				Solaris/Tenex			vi		Stanford/RockwellPaloAlto
    1989	c/LISP/.bat			Solaris/MSDOS6			vi		WashU
    1990	c/LISP/.bat			Solaris/MSDOS6			vi		WashU
    1991	c/LISP/.bat			Solaris/MSDOS6			vi		WashU
    1992	gawk/LISP/.bat			Solaris/MSDOS6			vi		WashU
    1993	gawk/TCL			Solaris/W3.1			vi		WashU
    1994	gawk				Solaris/W3.1/LX3.1		vi		WashU
    1995	gawk				Tru64/BSD/W95/OS2/LX3.1		vi		WashU
    1996	gawk				Tru64/BSD/W95/NT/LX3.1		vi		WashU
    1997	gawk/perl/Matlab		Tru64/BSD/W95/NT/LX3.1		vi		WashU
    1998	gawk/perl/Matlab		Tru64/BSD/W98/NT		vi		WashU
    1999	gawk/perl/php			Tru64/BSD/W98			vi		WashU
    2000	gawk/js				Redhat7/W98/XP			vi		WashU
    2001	gawk/js				Redhat7/W98			vi		WashU
    2002	gawk/js				Redhat7/W98			vi		WashU
    2003	gawk/js				Redhat7/W98			vi		WashU
    2004	gawk/js				Redhat7/W98			vi		WashU
    2005	gawk/js				Redhat7/W98			vi		WashU
    2006	gawk/js/ruby/py			Redhat7/Fedora7/W98		vi		WashU
    2007	gawk/js/mysql			Ubuntu/Mint/W7/bbOS		vi		WashU
    2008	nawk/js/mysql			Ubuntu/Solaris/W7/bbOS		vim		CleClinc/CycorpAustin
    2009	nawk/js/mysql			Ubuntu				vim		CleClinc/CycorpAustin
    2010	nawk/js/mysql			Ubuntu				vim		CleClinc/CycorpAustin
    2011	awk/js/mysql			Ubuntu				vim		CycorpAustin
    2012	awk/js/mysql			Ubuntu/W7/W8			vim		Illinois
    2013	awk/js/mysql			Ubuntu/Android/W7/W8		vim		Illinois
    2014	awk/js/mysql			Ubuntu/Android/W7/W8		vim		Illinois
    2015	awk/js/mysql			Ubuntu/Android/W7/W8		vim		Illinois
    2016	awk/js/mysql			Ubuntu/Android/W10		vim		Illinois
    2017	awk/js/sh/SQL/py		Ubuntu/Android/W10/KVM/S3	vim		LAstartup
    2018	awk/js/sh/SQL/py		Ubuntu/Android/W10/KVM/S3	vim		LAstartup
    2019	awk/js/php/c			Ubuntu/Android/W10/Xen		vim		CWRU
    2020	awk/js/php/c/bash		Ubuntu/Android/W10/Xen		vim		CWRU
    2021	awk/js/php/c/bash		Ubuntu/Android/W10/Xen		vim		CWRU
    2022	awk/js/php/c/bash		Ubuntu/Android/W10/Xen/ChrOS	vim		CWRU
    2023	awk/js/php/c/bash		Ubuntu/Android/Xen/ChrOS	vi		CWRU
    2024	awk/js/php/c/bash		Ubuntu/Android/Xen/FireOS	vi		CWRU 
    2025	awk/js/php/c/bash		Ubuntu/Android/Xen/FireOS	vi		CWRU    ← I M HERE 
    2026?	awk/js/?			Ubuntu/Android/?/?		vi		?
    




    Our Academic Tree (Academic Genealogy), somewhat incomplete!
    * had as a teacher or mentor (in addition to the obvious ones)
    + met and talked turkey
    bold indicates better cited top work than any listed mentor (not normalized for co-author, era, nor area; of course not all citations are equal, and not all important work is highly cited, nor vice versa)
    counts from scholar.google 5/10-11/25
    [] indicates deprecated mentor/co-author/formal advisor/research associate host/etc. by formal phd advisor with completed degree
    DOES NOT include payroll interns (see bottom line)
    
    Leibniz, Kant -> -> ->
    :: Charles Sanders Peirce (Harvard) ::JHU
      COLLECTED PAPERS 21,379
      ESSENTIAL PEIRCE VOL 2 5227
      SEMIOTICS 4293
      PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS 3719
      HOW TO MAKE OUR IDEAS CLEAR 3463
      FIXATION OF BELIEF 2853
    :: William James (Harvard Med) ::Harvard
      THE EMOTIONS 10,028
      PRAGMATISM 8959
    :: Josiah Royce (JHU/Berkeley) ::Harvard
      THE PROBLEM WITH CHRISTIANITY 726
      THE WORLD AND THE INDIVIDUAL 538
    :: Hugo Muensterberg (Heidelburg/Leipzig) ::Harvard/Freiburg/Berlin
      PSYCHOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY 1378
      THE PHOTOPLAY:  A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY 1100
    
    	Royce/James ->	:: Morris Raphael Cohen (Harvard) ::Columbia/CCNY/Chicago/Cornell/Harvard/Stanford/Yale
    	  PROPERTY AND SOVEREIGNTY 1720
    	  LOGIC AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD 2533
    
    		John Dewey (Vermont/JHU) ::Michigan/Chicago/Columbia
    		  DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION 61,872 
    		Cohen/[Dewey] -> :: Ernest Nagel (Columbia) ::CCNY/Columbia/Rockefeller
    		  STRUCTURE OF SCIENCE 11,702
    
    			Nagel -> :: Arnold Koslow (CUNY Brooklyn) ::Columbia/BrooklynCUNY/Cambridge
    			  STRUCTURALIST THEORY OF LOGIC 176
    
    			Nagel -> :: Sidney Morgenbesser (Columbia) ::CCNY/JewishTheoSem/Penn/Rockefeller/Princeton/Hebrew/Columbia
    			  PICKING AND CHOOSING 360
    
    			Nagel -> :: Kenneth F. Schaffner (Pitt) ::Brooklyn/Columbia/Pittsburgh/Chicago/Maryland/GWU
    			  DISCOVERY AND EXPLANATION IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 868
    			  APPROACHES TO REDUCTION 691
    
    			Nagel -> :: Patrick Colonel Suppes (Stanford) ::Oklahoma/Chicago/Columbia/Stanford*
    			  INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC 1750
    			  BASIC MEASUREMENT THEORY 1330
    
    			Nagel -> :: Jerome Rothenberg (MIT) ::Columbia/Riverside/Chicago/Northwestern/MIT
    			  MAZE OF URBAN HOUSING MARKETS 441
    
    			Nagel -> :: Henry Ely Kyburg (Rochester) ::Yale/Columbia/Rockefeller/Denver/Wesleyan/WayneState/Rochester/UWF*
    			  LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE 646
    
    			Nagel -> :: Morton White (Harvard) ::CCNY/Columbia/Harvard
    			  PHILOSOPHY, THE FEDERALIST, AD THE CONSTITUTION 361
    
    			Nagel -> :: Morton Beckner (Pomona) ::UCSB/Columbia/Brooklyn/Pomona
    			  BIOLOGICAL WAY OF THOUGHT 826
    
    			Nagel -> :: Isaac Levi (Columbia) ::Columbia/CCNY/CWRU*
    			  ENTERPRISE OF KNOWLEDGE 1931
    
    			Nagel -> :: Judith Jarvis Thomson (MIT) ::Barnard/Cambridge/Columbia/Oxford/BU/MIT/Pitt/Berkeley/Yale
    			  TROLLEY PROBLEM 2519
    			  REALM OF RIGHTS 2048
    
    				Hans Reichenbach (Stuttgart) ::UCLA
    				   EXPERIENCE AND PREDICTION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FOUNDATIONS AND THE STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE 4308
    				Reichebach/[Morgenbesser] -> :: Hilary W. Putnam ::*
    				  MEANING OF MEANING 10,171
    					Carl Hempel (Princeton)
    					  STUDIES IN THE LOGIC OF EXPLANATION 4772
    					Hempel/[Putnam] -> :: Richard Jeffrey ::
    					  LOGIC OF DECISION 4228
    						Jeffrey -> :: John Vickers ::
    						  DIGITAL TWIN: MITIGATING UNPREDICTABLE, UNDESIRABLE EMERGENT BEHAVIOR IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS 4195
    					Putnam -> :: Paul Benacerraf ::
    					  MATHEMATICAL TRUTH 2057
    						Benecerraf -> :: Jay Atlas ::
    						  RADICAL PRAGMATICS 888
    						Benecerraf -> :: Alan Baker ::
    						  TRANSCENDENTAL NUMBER THEORY 1560
    						Benecerraf -> :: John Earman::
    						  TRANSCENDENTAL NUMBER THEORY 1560
    						Benecerraf -> :: Richard Grandy ::
    						  TWO VIEWS ABOUT EXPLICITLY TEACHING NATURE OF SCIENCE 542
    						Benecerraf -> :: Mark E. Kalderon ::
    						  MORAL FICTIONALISM 357
    						Benecerraf -> :: Philip Kitcher ::
    						  SCIENCE, TRUTH, AND DEMOCRACY 2474
    						Benecerraf -> :: Gideon Rosen ::
    						  METAPHYSICAL DEPENDENCE 1636
    						Benecerraf -> :: Kieran Setiya ::
    						  REASONS WITHOUT RATIONALISM 601
    						Benecerraf -> :: Lawrence Sklar ::
    						  SPACE, TIME, AND SPACETIME 1088
    						Benecerraf -> :: Stephen P. Stich ::
    						  FROM FOLK PSYCHOLOGY TO COGNITIVE SCIENCE: THE CASE AGAINST BELIEF 3074
    					Putnam -> :: Jerrold Katz ::
    					  STRUCTURE OF A SEMANTIC THEORY 5250
    					Putnam -> :: Hans Herzberger ::
    					  NOTES ON NAIVE SEMANTICS 318
    					Putnam -> :: Herbert Enderton ::+
    					  A MATHEMATICAL INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC 4247
    					Putnam -> :: David Isles ::
    					  WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT 2^65536 IS A NATURAL NUMBER? 26
    					Putnam -> :: Jerry Fodor ::+
    					  MODULARITY OF MIND 21,690
    					Putnam -> :: Leslie Tharp ::
    					  WHICH LOGIC IS THE RIGHT LOGIC? 73
    					Putnam -> :: George Boolos ::
    					  COMPUTABILITY AND LOGIC 2513
    					Putnam -> :: Ward C. Henson ::
    					  A FAMILY OR COUNTABLE HOMOGENEOUS GRAPHS 193
    					Putnam -> :: David Lewis ::
    					  ON THE PLURALITY OF WORDS 10,658
    						Putnam -> :: Alexander Byrne ::
    						  INTENTIONALISM DEFENDED 869
    					Putnam -> :: Joan Lukas ::
    					  DATA OPTIMIZATION: ALLOCATION OF ARRAYS TO REDUCE COMMUNICATION ON SIMD MACHINES 355
    					Putnam -> :: Stephen L. Bloom ::
    					  ITERATION THEORIES 520
    					Putnam -> :: Norman Daniels ::
    					  JUST HEALTH CARE 3086
    					Putnam -> :: Ned Block ::+
    					  ON A CONFUSION ABOUT A FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS 4423
    						Block -> :: Rosa Cao ::+
    						  A TELEOSEMANTIC APPROACH TO INFORMATION IN THE BRAIN 111
    						Block -> :: Eric Lormand ::+
    						  NONPHENOMENAL CONSCIOUSNESS 141
    					Putnam -> :: Miriam L. Lucian ::
    					  MÖBIUS REPARAMETRIZATIONS OF RATIONAL B-SPLINES 42
    					Putnam -> :: Elliott Sober ::
    					  UNTO OTHERS 5829
    					Putnam -> :: Daniel Garber ::
    					  DESCARTES' METAPHYSICAL PHYSICS 1072
    					Putnam -> :: Richard Healey ::
    					  THE PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: AN INTERACTIVE INTERPRETATION 327
    					Putnam -> :: Norbert Hornstein ::
    					  MOVEMENT AND CONTROL 1979
    					Putnam -> :: James Conant ::
    					  THE METHOD OF THE TRACTATUS 287
    					Putnam -> :: Alva Noe ::
    					  ACTION IN PERCEPTION 	7053
    
    				Morgenbesser -> :: Raymond Geuss ::
    				  IDEA OF A CRITICAL THEORY 2926
    
    				Morgenbesser -> :: Alvin Goldman ::
    				  EPISTEMOLOGY AND COGNITION 3872
    
    				Morgenbesser -> :: Daniel Hausman ::
    				  THE INEXACT AND SEPARATE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS 1915
    
    				Morgenbesser -> :: Robert Nozick ::+
    				  ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA 31,468
    
    				Morgenbesser -> :: Gideon Rosen ::
    				  METAPHYSICAL DEPENDENCE 1633
    
    				Morgenbesser -> :: Mark Steiner ::
    				  APPLICABILITY OF MATHEMATICS AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM 524
    
    				Morgenbesser -> :: Michael Stocker ::
    				  SCHIZOPHRENIA OF MODERN ETHICAL THEORIES 1342
    
    				Morgenbesser -> :: Josef Stern ::
    				  METAPHOR IN CONTEXT 737
    
    				Suppes -> :: Ernest Adams ::
    				  LOGIC OF CONDITIONALS 2045
    					Adams -> :: John L. Pollock ::*
    					  CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE 2339
    					Adams -> :: Robert Causey ::
    					  UNITY OF SCIENCE 255
    					Adams -> :: William S. Cooper ::
    					  EVOLUTION OF REASON:  LOGIC AS A BRANCH OF BIOLOGY 142
    					Adams -> :: Susan Vineberg ::
    					  DUTCH BOOK ARGUMENTS 171
    
    				Suppes -> :: Barry Arnold ::
    				  FIRST COURSE IN ORDER STATISTICS 3211
    					Arnold -> :: John Angus ::
    					  PROBABILITY INTEGRAL TRANSFORM AND RELATED RESULTS 304
    					Arnold -> :: Daniel Rowe ::
    					  CHARACTERIZATION OF CONTINUOUSLY DISTRIBUTED CORTICAL WATER DIFFUSION RATES WITH A STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL MODEL 622
    					Arnold -> :: Thomas W. Lucas ::
    					  A USER'S GUIDE TO THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DESIGNING SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS 713
    
    				Suppes -> :: Jean Donio ::
    				  CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND LOYALTY 431
    
    				Suppes -> :: Jean-Claude Falmagne ::
    				  KNOWLEDGE SPACES 1094
    					Suppes -> :: Kamakshi Lakshminarayan ::
    					  IMPUTATION OF MISSING DATA IN INDUSTRIAL DATABASES 411
    					Suppes -> :: Michael Regenwetter ::
    					  A RANDOM UTILITY MODEL FOR APPROVAL VOTING 54
    
    				Suppes -> :: Shirley Hill ::
    				  FIRST COURSE IN MATHEMATICAL LOGIC 64
    
    				Suppes -> :: Paul Holland ::
    				  DISCRETE MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS 9162
    					Suppes -> :: Stanley Sholom Wasserman ::
    					  SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 50,466
    						Suppes -> :: Carolyn J. Anderson ::
    						  LOGIT MODELS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS 449
    
    				Suppes -> :: Lawrence Hubert ::
    				  COMPARING PARTITIONS 11,288
    
    				Suppes -> :: Paul Humphreys ::
    				  COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, EMPIRICISM, AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD 1150
    
    				Suppes -> :: Helena Kraemer ::
    				  MEDIATORS AND MODERATORS OF TREATMENT EFFECTS IN RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS 3274
    
    				Suppes -> :: Robert W. Latzer ::
    				  NONDIRECTED LIGHT SIGNALS AND THE STRUCTURE OF TIME 26
    
    				Suppes -> :: Michael Levine ::
    				  FUNDAMENTALS OF SENSATION AND PERCEPTION 583
    
    				Suppes -> :: Thomas Malone ::
    				  INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF COORDINATION 5515
    					Malone -> :: Erik Brynjolfsson ::
    				  	 BIG DATA:  THE MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION 8552
    					Malone -> :: Paul Resnick ::
    				  	 GROUP LENS:  AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE FOR COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF NETNEWS 8884
    					Malone -> :: Abraham Bernstein ::
    				  	 HEXASTORE:  SEXTUPLE INDEXING FOR SEMANTIC WEB DATA MANAGEMENT 897
    					Malone -> :: Mark S. Ackerman ::
    				  	 INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGE OF CSCW 1249
    					Malone -> :: Kevin Crowston ::
    				  	 INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF COORDINATION 5515
    					Malone -> :: Chrysanthos Dellarocas ::
    				  	 DIGITIZATION OF WORD OF MOUTH 5984
    					Malone -> :: David A. Rosenblitt ::
    				  	 SEMISTRUCTURED MESSAGES ARE SURPRISINGLY USEFUL FOR COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COORDINATION 629
    					Malone -> :: George Wyner ::
    				  	 BRINGING CONTEXT INSIDE PROCESS RESEARCH WITH DIGITAL TRACE DATA 85
    
    				Suppes -> :: Sueli Mendes ::
    				  A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO SITUATION THEORY BASED ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING 10
    
    				Suppes -> :: Frank M. Norman ::
    				  SOME CONVERGENCE THEOREMS FOR STOCHASTIC LEARNING MODELS WITH DISTANCE DIMINISHING OPERATORS 132
    
    				Suppes -> :: Frank Restle ::
    				  PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDGMENT AND CHOICE 716
    
    				Suppes -> :: Jean Rubin ::
    				  CONSEQUENCES OF THE AXIOM OF CHOICE 548
    
    				Suppes -> :: Raimo Tuomela ::
    				  A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY OF BASIC SOCIAL NOTIONS 1328
    
    				Suppes -> :: Kenneth Wexler ::
    				  MATURATION OF SYNTAX 1681
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Kirkor Bozdogan ::
    				  LEAN ENTERPRISE VALUE:  INSIGHTS FROM MIT'S LEAN AEROSPACE INITIATIVE 586
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Katherine Bradbury ::
    				  PERSON-BASED APPROACH TO INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT 1387
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Henry Brady ::
    				  A RESOURCE MODEL OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION 4515
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Ralph Braid ::
    				  PEAK-LOAD PRICING OF A TRANSPORTATION ROUTE WITH AN UNPRICED SUBSTITUTE 244
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Richard Butler ::
    				  CONCEPT OF A TOURIST AREA CYCLE OF EVOLUTION:  IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES 10,455
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Sheldon Danzinger ::
    				  EXPLAINING URBAN CRIME RATES 108
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Allan Detsky ::
    				  EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE:  A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE 6864
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Bryan Ellickson ::
    				  AN ALTERNATIVE TEST OF THE HEDONIC THEORY OF HOUSING MARKETS 346
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Bernard Friedman ::
    				  PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS 1442
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Alan Polinksy ::
    				  AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF PUBLIC ENFORCEMENT LAW 1940
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Vernon Renshaw ::
    				  GROSS STATE PRODUCT BY INDUSTRY 96
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Kenneth Rosen ::
    				  SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF CITIES:  AND EXAMINATION OF THE PARETO LAW AND PRIMACY 892
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Irving Silver ::
    				  HOUSING AND THE POOR 3
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: Barbara Stevens ::
    				  SCALE, MARKET STRUCTURE, AND THE COST OF REFUSE COLLECTION 455
    
    				Rothenberg -> :: William Stull ::
    				  COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT, ZONING, AND THE MARKET VALUE OF SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES 208
    
    				Gilbert Ryle (Oxford) ::Oxford
    				  THE CONCEPT OF MIND 27,584
    				Ryle/[Kyburg] -> :: Daniel Clement Dennett ::+
    				  INTENTIONAL STANCE 11,411
    				
    				Stuart Hampshire (Limerick) ::UCL/Oxford
    				  LIBERALISM 1347
    				Hampshire/[Kyburg] -> :: Robert Stalnaker ::
    				  A THEORY OF CONDITIONALS 2643
    				
    				Hughes Leblanc/[Kyburg] -> :: Richmond H. Thomason ::*
    				  COMBINATIONS OF TENSE AND MODALITY 625
    				
    				Kyburg -> :: William L. Harper ::+
    				  COUNTERFACTUALS AND TWO KINDS OF EXPECTED UTILITY 708
    				
    				Kyburg -> :: Ronald P. Loui ::
    				  A MATHEMATICAL TREATMENT OF DEFEASIBLE REASONING AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION 798
    					Loui -> :: Guillermo R. Simari ::
    					  DEFEASIBLE LOGIC PROGRAMMING:  AN ARGUMENTATIVE APPROACH 1186
    					  	Simari -> :: Juan Carlos Augusto ::+
    						  AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE:  TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES 1431
    					  	Simari -> :: Pablo Fillotrani ::+
    						  WAIT NO MORE:  CITIZENS, RED TAPE, AND DIGITAL GOVERNMENT 51
    					  	Simari -> :: Gustavo Bodanza ::
    						  COLLECTIVE ARGUMENTATION 62
    					  	Simari -> :: Alejandro Javier Garcia ::+
    						  DEFEASIBLE LOGIC PROGRAMMING:  AN ARGUMENTATIVE APPROACH 1186
    							Garcia -> :: Nicolas D. Rotstein ::
    							  FORMALIZING DIALECTICAL EXPLANATION SUPPORT FOR ARGUMENT-BASED REASONING IN KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS 83
    							Garcia -> :: Sebastian Gottifredi ::
    							  SURVEY OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO SUPPORT IN ARGUMENTATION SYSTEMS 101
    							Garcia  -> :: Andrea Cohen ::
    							  SURVEY OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO SUPPORT IN ARGUMENTATION SYSTEMS 101
    							Garcia -> :: Diego C. Martinez ::
    							  AN ABSTRACT ARGUMENTATION FRAMEWORK WITH VARIED-STRENGTH ATTACKS 96
    						Simari -> :: Carlos Chesnevar ::+
    						  LOGICAL MODELS OF ARGUMENT 686
    						Simari -> :: Marcelo Falappa ::+
    						  CREDIBILITY LIMITED REVISION 147
    							Falappa -> :: Christhian A.D. Deaugustini ::
    							  ARGUMENT-BASED MIXED RECOMMENDERS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO MOVIE SUGGESTION 105
    						Simari -> :: Ignacio Ponzoni ::
    						  ON STOPPING CRITERIA FOR GENETIC ALGORITHMS 247
    						Simari -> :: Marcela Capobianco ::
    						  ARGUMENTATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF WARRANTED BELIEFS IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS 100
    						Simari -> :: Claudio Delrieux ::+
    						  ERGONOMIC RISK ASSESSMENT BASED ON COMPUTER VISION AND MACHINE LEARNING 140
    						Simari -> :: Maximiliano C.D. Budan ::
    						  ARGUMENT-BASED MIXED RECOMMENDERS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO MOVIE SUGGESTION 105
    						Simari -> :: Diego R. Garcia ::
    						  PLANNING AND DEFEASIBLE REASONING 54
    						Simari -> :: Mauro J.G. Lucero ::
    						  ON THE ACCRUAL OF ARGUMENTS IN DEFEASIBLE LOGIC PROGRAMMING 36
    						Simari -> :: Laura A. Cecchi ::
    						  ON THE COMPLEXITY OF DELP THROUGH GAME SEMANTICS 56
    						Simari -> :: Marcelo Luis Errecalde ::
    						  A TEXT CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK FOR SIMPLE AND EARLY DEPRESSION DETECTION OVER SOCIAL MEDIA STREAMS 238
    							Errecalde -> :: Edgardo Ferretti ::
    							  TEXT CATEGORIZATION AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL USING WORDNET SENSES 81
    							  MEASURING THE QUALITY OF WEB CONTENT USING FACTUAL INFORMATION 66
    					Loui -> :: Gadi M. Pinkas ::
    					  NEURAL-SYMBOLIC LEARNING AND REASONING SURVEY 470
    					Loui -> :: Moshe Looks ::
    					  DEEP LEARNING WITH DYNAMIC COMPUTATION GRAPHS 172
    					Meyer/[Loui] -> :: Gerard Vreeswijk ::
    					  LOGICS FOR DEFEASIBLE ARGUMENTATION 948
    					Indiana/Argentina/[Loui] -> :: Ana Maguitman ::
    					  LOGICAL MODELS OF ARGUMENT 686
    					Hage/[Loui] -> :: Bart Verheij ::
    					  A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR HYBRID INTELLIGENCE: AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT W/ COLLABORATIVE, ADAPTIVE, RESPONSIBLE, AND EXPLAINABLE AI 461
    					Argentina/[Loui] -> :: Fernando Tohme ::
    					  COALITION STRUCTURE GENERATION WITH WORST CASE GUARANTEES 1063
    					Loui -> :: Michael Pachos ::
    					  IMPLEMENTATION OF A CONTENT-SCANNING MODULE FOR AN INTERNET FIREWALL 397
    					John Lockwood/[Loui] -> :: James M. Moscola ::
    					  IMPLEMENTATION OF A CONTENT-SCANNING MODULE FOR AN INTERNET FIREWALL 397
    					Loui -> :: Andrew Levine ::
    					  STREAMING HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING FOR CONCEPT MINING 27
    					Loui -> :: Jersey Chen ::
    					  EXPOSURE TO LOW-DOSE IONIZING RADIATION FROM MEDICAL IMAGING PROCEDURES 1663
    					Loui -> :: Diana M. Moore::
    					  DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATION 12 (12 exceptional ones! esp for an unpublished undergrad thesis)
    					Loui -> :: Adam M. Costello ::
    					  IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF LOG-STRUCTURED FILE SYSTEMS WITH ADAPTIVE METHODS 254
    					Berkeley/[Loui] -> :: William Chen ::
    					  A FULLY AUTOMATED CONTENT-BASED VIDEO SEARCH ENGINE SUPPORTING SPATIOTEMPORAL QUERIES 620
    					[Wisconsin]/Loui -> :: Andrew Merrill ::
    					  TITANIUM NITRIDE FILMS FOR ULTRASENSITIVE MICRORESONATOR DETECTORS 292
    					Loui -> :: Jon Olson ::
    					  A DESIGN FOR REASONING WITH POLICIES, PRECEDENTS, AND RATIONALES 73
    					[MIT]/Loui -> :: Mark A. Foltz ::
    					  DESIGNING NAVIGABLE INFORMATION SPACES 67
    					Loui -> :: Jessica A. Linsday, Dan Pinkard ::
    					  A TESTBED FOR PUBLIC INTERACTIVE SEMI-FORMAL LEGAL ARGUMENTATION 83
    					Loui -> :: Kevin Krouse ::
    					  AN OPEN SOURCE PLATFORM FOR SCIENTIFIC DATA INTEGRATION, ANALYSIS, AND COLLABORATION 159
    					[Harvard]/[Loui] -> :: Eric Wofsey ::
    					  SET THEORY AND OPERATOR ALGEBRAS 42
    					Loui -> :: G. Adam Covington ::
    					  TOWARD 100GBPS AS RESEARCH COMMODITY 384
    					Illinois/[Loui] -> :: Joseph S. Altepeter ::
    					  EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF DECOHERENCE-FREE SPACES 638
    					Loui -> :: David E Saff ::
    					  EUPHORIA: END-USER CONSTRUCTION OF DIRECT MANIPULATION USER INTERFACES FOR DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS 20
    					Michigan/MIT/[Loui] -> :: Kyle Ormsby ::
    					  REMARKS ON MOTIVIC HOMOTOPY THEORY OVER ALGEBRAICALLY CLOSED FIELDS 66
    					Loui -> :: Nina Kang ::
    					  GOOGLE'S CONSISTENT, GLOBAL AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM 353
    					SaudiArabia/[Loui] -> :: Fatmah A. Alanazi ::
    					  ENSEMBLE DEEP LEARNING MODELS FOR MITIGATING DDOS ATTACK IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK 29
    					Loui -> :: Mohammad Ghasemisharif ::
    					  EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF SINGLE SIGN ON ACCOUNT HIJACKING AND SESSION MANAGEMENT 90
    					Loui -> :: Barry Z. Cynamon ::
    					  HOUSEHOLD DEBT IN THE CONSUMER AGE:  SOURCE OF GROWTH, RISK OF COLLAPSE 482
    					Loui -> :: Stephen Sachs ::
    					  LAW OF INTERPRETATION 568
    					Loui -> :: Gulnur Bora ::
    					  Currently writing up work on watchdog snapshots and cyberphysical sensor failure
    					Loui -> :: Eleanor D. Colvin, Mollie Ackerman, Thao Nguyen ::
    					  Currently working on a few things (social networks, virtual art presentation, procedural fairness)
    
    				Kyburg -> :: Bulent Murtezaoglu ::+
    				  A MODIFICATION TO EVIDENTIAL PROBABILITY 10
    				
    				Kyburg -> :: Choh Man Teng ::+
    				  CORRECTING NOISY DATA 243
    				
    				Len Schubert/[Kyburg] -> :: Fahiem Bacchus ::+
    				  USING TEMPORAL LOGICS TO EXPRESS SEARCH CONTROL KNOWLEDGE FOR PLANNING 836
    					Bacchus -> :: Wai Lam ::
    					  LEARNING BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS: aN APPROACH BASED ON THE MDL PRINCIPLE 1212
    				
    				Kyburg -> :: Alice Kyburg ::+
    				  FITTING WORDS:  VAGUE LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT 97
    				
    				Kyburg -> :: Mariam Thalos ::+
    				  WITHOUT HIERARCHY:  THE SCALE OF FREEDOM OF THE UNIVERSE 71
    				
    				Kyburg -> :: Gregory Wheeler ::+
    				  BOUNDED RATIONALITY 174
    				
    				Kyburg -> :: Abhaya Nayak ::
    				  ITERATED BELIEF CHANGE BASED ON EPISTEMIC ENTRENCHMENT 251
    					Nayak -> :: Ali Aydin ::
    					  GESTURE RECOGNITION USING SKELETON DATA WITH WEIGHTED DYNAMIC TIME WARPING 193
    					Nayak -> :: Armin Hezart ::
    					  ACCESSIBILITY SOLUTIONS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS OF WEB DISCUSSION BOARDS 11
    					Nayak -> :: M'ad Maghaydah ::
    					  LABELING XML NODES IN RDBMS 5
    					Nayak -> :: Hadi Mashinchi ::
    					  HYBRID OPTIMIZATION WITH IMPROVED TABU SEARCH 69
    					Nayak -> :: Raghav Ramachandran ::
    					  THREE APPROACHES TO ITERATED BELIEF CONTRACTION 34
    					Nayak -> :: Akther Shermin ::
    					  USING DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORKS TO INFER GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS FROM EXPRESSION PROFILES 22
    				
    				Levi/[Kyburg] -> :: Teddy Seidenfeld ::+
    				  DILATION FOR SETS OF PROBABILITIES 272
    
    				Levi -> :: Rush Stewart ::
    				  PROBABILISTIC OPINION POLLING WITH IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES 54
    
    				White -> :: Sylvain Bromberger ::
    				  WHY-QUESTIONS 592
    					White -> :: Scott Soames ::
    					  BEYOND RIGIDITY: THE UNFINISHED SEMANTIC AGENDA OF NAMING AND NECESSITY 1172
    					White -> :: Paul Mellema ::
    					  A BRIEF AGAINST CASE GRAMMAR 55
    					White -> :: Thomas Uebel ::
    					  OTTO NEURATH: PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND POLITICS 581
    					White -> :: Robert Stainton ::
    					  WORDS AND THOUGHTS: SUBSENTENCES, ELLIPSIS, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE 373
    
    				Koslow -> :: Tamny Martin ::
    				  CERTAIN PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS:  NEWTON'S TRINITY NOTEBOOK 251
    
    				Koslow -> :: Erik C. Banks ::
    				  REALISTIC EMPIRICISM OF MACH, JAMES, AND RUSSELL 162
    
    				Koslow -> :: Andrews Paez ::
    				  COMPLEX PTSD REVIEW 54
    
    				Koslow -> :: David M. Shein ::
    				  THE ANNUAL PHYSICAL:  DELIVERING VALUE 13
    
    				Koslow -> :: Dien Ho ::
    				  WHEN GOOD ORGANS GO TO BAD PEOPLE 50
    
    				Koslow -> :: Yvonne Raley ::
    				  WHY WE QUIT 58
    
    				Koslow -> :: Jean-David Lafrance ::
    				  BUNDLE OF UNIVERSALS THEORY OF MATERIAL OBJECTS 15
    				
    				Jarvis Thomson -> :: Selim Berker ::
    				  COHERENTISM VIA GRAPHS 34
    
    				Jarvis Thomson -> :: Adam Omar Hosein ::
    				  IMMIGRATION AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT 60
    
    
    IF WE INCLUDE summer intern payroll without content interaction, akin to lab supervision in the sciences, my subtree adds quite a few, e.g.  non-exhaustively:  
    
    
    					[Stanford]/[Loui] -> :: Scott Hassan ::
    					  USING DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS FOR DIGITAL LIBRARY INTEROPERABILITY 135
    					[MIT]/[Loui] -> :: Quinton Zondervan ::
    					  ENTERPRISE DATA ACCESS FROM MOBILE COMPUTERS: AN END-TO-END STORY 53
    					Stanford/[Loui] -> :: Vitaly Shmatikov ::
    					  PRIVACY-PRESERVING DEEP LEARNING 3121
    					GaTech/[Loui] -> :: Kenneth Moorman ::
    					  A FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF CREATIVE READING 83
    					UCLA/[Loui] -> :: Alex Fukunaga ::
    					  COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOTICS: ANTECEDENTS AND DIRECTIONS 1918
    					Cornell/[Loui] -> :: Mark Hayden ::
    					  BIMODAL MULTICAST 1007
    					Cornell/[Loui] -> :: Cyrus Mody ::
    					  PARADOXICAL INFRASTRUCTURES: RUINS, RETROFIT, AND RISK 384
    					[Princeton]/[Loui] -> :: Reid Gershbein ::
    					  RENDERING COMPLEX SCENES WITH MEMORY-COHERENT RAY TRACING 341
    					CMU/[Loui] -> :: Neil Heffernan ::
    					  THE ASSISTMENTS ECOSYSTEM: BUILDING A PLATFORM THAT BRINGS SCIENTISTS AND TEACHERS TOGETHER FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE RESEARCH ON HUMAN LEARNING AND TEACHING 763
    					Berkeley/[Loui] -> :: Nancy Chang ::
    					  EMBODIED CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR IN SIMULATION-BASED LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING 720
    
    ... a few others ... trying to find a list that wasn't anonymized.  Not claiming any more postdocs on shared grants ...
    
    (they would have claim to the tree, but the tree probably should not claim them!)
    
    
    





    Photo I took Aug 12, 2023 at the Summer Horns concert in Dayton/Kettering. Why a big deal? Well, I hadn't seen Dulfer in concert since 1993 in Leidseplein during ICAIL at Univ of Amsterdam (Intl Conf on AI and Law). I think the best saxophonist ever: best tone, best use of notes, best styles (70s soul/funk/disco brass), best danceability/listenability, best overall musicality, best longevity. I told her I started with Crusaders and Rollins, and then I heard her stuff. Not just me, but Bill Clinton and Lisa Simpson too. And I wouldn't have known about this concert except that a student in the linux scripting class turned in a project that provided upcoming concert notifications. His demo used this tour as example and I said, wait, I know that musical genre. So if you think your programming is just gluing together components and it's too late to have an idea that impacts the world, think again. This student's project just jazzed my world!

    Some sax players I've maybe owned on vinyl or cd that I like a lot, but I think Candy Dulfer is even better than: Paul Desmond, Molly Duncan, Yusef Lateef, Don Myrick, Tom Scott, Chris Vadala, Wayne Shorter, Mark Colby, Wilton Felder, Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Gerry Mulligan, Michael Brecker, Fela Kuti, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Bob Mintzer, Vincent Fossitt, Jay Beckenstein, Cannonball Adderley, Steve Tavaglione, Frank Wess, John Coltrane, Maceo Parker, Charlie Parker, Kirk Whalum, Boney James, David Sanborn, Coleman Hawkins, Clarence Clemons, Ronnie Laws, Grover Washington, Gato Barbieri, Benjamin Bossi, Rindy Ross, Cece Worrall, Branford Marsalis, Herb Geller, at least for overall content over many decades ... One gal beats them all! Female phrasing, not just males firing a barrage of notes.

    Since youtube doesn't bring up her best, here are a few links:
  • WILD IS THE WIND (Uitmarkt live version)
  • 2 MILES (Montreux live version)
  • SAX A GO GO (music video version)
  • FOR THE LOVE OF YOU (beautiful club video version)
  • NO TIME FOR THIS (Aschaffenburg live version)
  • NJ TURNPIKE (album version)
  • DON'T GO (Jazztage version)
  • FULL MOON (102FM NL version)
  • IN THE AFTERNOON (third solo, Morrison Rockpalast timestamp)
  • LILY WAS HERE (Culbertson version)
  • HAPPY (Covid version)
  • MY FUNK (album version)
  • CD 101.9 (album version)
  • ROPPONGI PANIC (album version)
  • ON AND ON (Jazztage live version)
  • DANCE TILL YOU BOP (Bronx dance kids)
  • 2025 (Korean dance academy)
  • TOMMYGUN (Japanese dance group)
  • SAXUALITY (1990 live version)
  • FOR THE LOVE OF YOU (Amsterdam live version)
  • TOGETHER (Ochtend version)
  • OUT OF TIME (Tribute to Prince, VRT version)
  • WALLS (album version)
  • RAINDROPS (album version)
  • MAN IN THE DESERT/FEELIN KINDA FUNKY (Warsaw live version)
  • SUNDAY AFTERNOON (Veronica Beach live version)
  • MAN IN THE DESERT/FEELIN KINDA FUNKY (Veronica Beach live timestamp)
  • LA CIY LIGHTS (from the bridge)
  • SMOOTH (piano outro album version)
  • SO COOL (album version)
  • WHAT U DO (Thornton live version)
  • WHAT U DO (Jazztage live version)
  • LILY WAS HERE (studio taping at 19-20)
  • LILY WAS HERE (official video version), same bar scene when we met before her taping of this in Amsterdam ... just 23, but already a national treasure (as I told her, which was self-evident by 1993)! I see now it was her m-video dancers who arrived who made me feel like a non-dancer, for obvious reasons. They were good! One secret to Candy Dulfer's music, besides her obvious talent for solo and duet, listening and responding, memory (she doesn't read music!), timing, IQ, EQ, MQ, understanding of brand, and faithful love of 70s brass, is that she's actually a natural dancer herself. Watch closely and you'll see. Interestingly when I told her she was a national treasure, she knew; when I told her she was the greatest sax ever, she made a "glad someone finally noticed" face. Oh, she was humble in her receiving the compliment, but it was not a new thought in her mind (see also Cameille Claudel).

    She had already lavished considerable attention on our front row beneath her microphone stand, and I was wearing an Amsterdam hat she could not miss. There was a small autograph line which I joined at the back, watching others talk to her. She patiently signed someone's cd, a shirt, a hat, took selfies with fans, and someone grabbed the set list off the stage floor and had her sign that. I was next and last, unrushed, and said "That'll make a good memory. I have one of those from thirty years ago. From Leidseplein." That got her attention. She knelt down close and passed her saxophone to an assistant to take backstage. In my moment of triumph I managed this "I don't want anything but to tell you how much joy you've brought me over the past three decades." That was a winner. She stuck her head to mine, temple-to-temple, so I could tell her how great she is for five minutes and she could hear every word. This got a prolonged smile. Under a little private "tent" created by her forward falling hair. Finally, someone told her she had to be somewhere else. So she offered her hand close to herself to shake warmly saying "Thank you" excitedly, profusely, and repeatedly, as she does these days. And that, friends, is how you do it.

    Two images from the video my sis-in-law took for me at Hollywood Bowl a month later. Same outfit almost, but we had a light summer night breeze, wind in the hair, thus cooler stage and happier performer.





    What does an email response from a Nobel Economics Laureate look like?

    I pointed out that fellow WashU Doug North was a neural net fanboy after his Nobel, and that I had traded email with a few Econ Nobels, including Ken Arrow about which room his seminar was in. Herb Simon wanted to discuss ai & poetry? I even have an early letter signed by Hurwicz and another by Harsanyi. Physics Nobel Ramsey gave me a B- in quantum but that was mainly because his class was very early in the morning (so I missed cough a few lectures). I guess a half hour in a room with Crick 3-on-1 counts too. 2023 Chem Nobelist is in a photo below from college graduation (he lost even more hair than I did!). Does Obama count?

    BTW, I've agreed with Dybvig since I heard his opinion on neural nets back in 1990 when we were both Asst Profs at WashU and both of us knew a little somethin somethin about appled stats.

    Also good company in the biblography of Anna Carabelli's 2023 paper on Keynes and Probability. She wrote a whole paragraph on my position and didn't even say I was wrong!




    Why you should try to impress me. Message to a Google VP of Engineering on behalf of job applicant.

    You should see the rec letter I wrote for a student to get him transferred to Stanford. Well, you can't, but take my word for it. Starts like this:

    Colleagues: I've been a postdoc at Stanford, have two young relatives there now, just graduated a niece from the Farm, and have three cousins, my brother, his wife, and her sister who love the Tree and Tresider, with BSs, JD/MBA, and MDs. The brother hosts Stanford law recruiting and SoCal Cardinal board meetings. The other side boasts a cousin, our first Stanford grad in the family, whose company turns out more patents than any other company in Hawaii. And at Punahou School in Hawaii, many of our teachers were Stanford alums (my fourth grade teacher was coaching his son on Cardinal volleyball/Olympic teams recently), with 14 of my high school class attending Stanford. I think I know what Stanford likes. We've even had two family weddings in Stanford Chapel. So let me tell you about Mr. XXXXXXXXXXXXXX who is interested in transferring to Stanford ...






    Nice to be in the 2012 Turing Award winner's most famous work, Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems from 1988. Always thought I was just the footnote, but had time this summer to revisit.

    Put me in the same paragraph as 2002 Econ Nobel winner Kahneman and in the same sentence as 1994 Econ Nobel winner Harsanyi. The three works of mine Judea cited were all unpublished technical reports at the time.

    Judea Pearl wrote the recommendation letter for my job at Wash U too.




    1998 Canadian textbook on AI, Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach, when reasoning was fashionable, snagged a Further Reading mention. Actually nice to see their 3rd edition 2023 textbook still references our Chesñevar et al. Canadians have had us for 25 years in their textbook, which is not too bad. Many thanks, David.




    An airplane I consulted on for McDonnell-Douglas in St. Louis. Sensor fusion problem still with us today.

    Sort of why Teslas run into parked trucks and Boeing 737 MAXs suddenly dive into the ground.

    Growler is the USN electronic warfare platform. Australian Super Hornets might be in Ukraine soon; US F/A-18s seem to be doing Blue Angel airshows these days. -- Update: and now striking Houthi targets in Yemen, probably helping shoot down drones and cruise missiles aimed at Israel.




    Our patent that people fought over viciously. Expired recently. Didn't think it was such a big deal until NPR was telling me about my own work. And first commercial embodiment -- the GV2000. Mostly due to Lockwood and his students, but Moscola/Pachos were my undergrads first, and Levine/Covington often worked with me up the chain.




    Somewhat surprising you can just read this at IEEE Xplore, but the Defense Secretary's office ok'd for publication. Considering how many people screamed headlines that this was so interesting, the download count from IEEE is very low! Sometimes fiction baits clicks better than fact (if the viral bad press had had any semblance to reality, perhaps I would have been concerned too!).

    One of our engineers on this project, my third doctoral student (with theses on Genetic Algorithms and meta-Bayesian selection speedup), won the McDonalds NLP/voiceAI competition and was tapped to create the McD corporate AI lab: HERE. So if you voice-order super-sized fries and get extra large flies, that's Moshe's python (always blame the data set!).




    What our citation-based search engine looked like in the mid-90s -- Jeff Norman's idea after CS undergrad took him to law school. Lotta fun gawk programming for me and high school Joe (currently quantum computing DARPA director). I was calling it Data Harvesting because we were in the Midwest. Also, early web mail with attachments, because I didn't want to telnet to wustl from Europe c. 1993. And some code from hserver, the Harvard alumni network, probably my first gawk program. Pre-HTML social network: imagine that. Was inspired by seeing a CalTech student chatting with fellow alums on a server they kept open for that purpose. Another student tried to sell it to MIT's Development Office. I see this is a HTML/CGI revision, so this is hserver2, not the original mailserver version.




    A really interesting investigation I did with an undergraduate in CS for her BS independent study and senior thesis (HERE) was cited 10x, as an unpublished work. Six of those were important papers by the COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD WINNER, Nick Jennings.





    A minor thing, but I like it. Here's an early paper from Martha Pollack, recently Cornell's President, citing my early work. Probably Kurt's co-author input. That last reference, et ai, Bratman?

    Just found this 2022 bachelor's thesis at the great Munich University saying nice things. I gotta meet this guy and say nice things back. Of course, Europe all starts with Vreeswijk's doctoral dissertation in Amsterdam, 1993 (same year as ICAIL, but made separate trips, and swung through in 1991 after Eklund's defense in Sweden). I called Gerard Vreeswijk the Dutch Wittgenstein. He took me to a Croatian restaurant and apparently I tipped too much: in that time and place, not needed. Immigrant mother owner told her daughter to make sure she gave me my overcoat and held it open like I was a someone. I saw the instructions being whispered. Nicely done, Ron.




    For a while, it was fun comparing my undergrad thesis to Bill Gates's undergrad tech report (my values are in red, so I was cited before he was and peaked higher!), but I believe he has pulled ahead (yes, past two years his [19 and 20] vs my [6 and 10], ugh). On other metrics, comparison requires logk scale, nontrivial k. But as I tell economists, I've purchased things in life that dear Bill couldn't get at any price (hint: be a nice person in a service-oriented economy). Sometimes a latte is not just coffee -- depends on how you treat the barrista.




    One of the four conferences I organized in St. Louis. Interesting banquet speaker listed there (Obama who?). Law school dean, Joel Seligman, who graciously let us use his building became the U of Rochester President. Both fellas in the courtroom photo, Prof. Fred Schauer and Dr. Karl Branting, as well as one just out of frame, Prof. Trevor Bench-Capon, passed away recently.




    A collection of essays I worked on before the end of the 2008 campaign.

    Letter from future US President in his Law Review days. I'll scan the White House note some day.




    2-term R-Gov of Hawaii was nice enough to give me an hour of her time in the R-Gov of Illinois office when she was starring as COO of IL.

    I told her I'd work for her if she got back into politics as a centrist/bipartisan, but I thought she should try not to cut the budget of the University of Illinois system so deeply so fast. My idea was to agree with her that tightened campus budgets made sense given funding realities, but that closing and restarting institutions with huge infrastructure investments was terrible long-term waste.

    Next I see, she's in Cleveland helping nominate a Presidential candidate at a convention and the extreme part of her party is booing her for divluging that she's Jewish and can work with the other party. Hard to believe she met with such vitriol, but that's how it was.




    Not too many advisors get to see a doctoral student celebrated in a Festschrift. The reason is simply that Guillermo Simari was already a professor when he got his PhD in CS at Wash U. In my article in this work, I introduce the ideas of dialectical predicate refinement and severing a correlate of the consequent in implicature, which I had puzzled over while sitting with cafe con leche at Cafe Muñoz in Argentina.

    In the Essays in Honor of my doctoral advisor, I presented a clean mathematical setup for a process model of negotiation that relies on pessimism to drive rational concession. The basic idea is to place a probability distribution, at each time, over where settlement might be found. This changes expectation, which motivates concession. It's a beautiful model -- better than both of Nash's solutions -- that I presented at the Spanish national AI conference as invited plenary speaker in San Sebastián, and mentioned in my Jurix invited plenary at Panthéon-Sorbonne -- Paris. Fresh off the plane in rumpled clothes, arrived just in time to open the conference very unexpectedly. "You can give your talk now?" "I haven't used the bathroom since NYC, but let's try.")

    Looks like some of the slides can be found HERE and paper HERE.




    A bit hilarious that the conservative Federalist is mad about our company doing DoD work in 2023 while appearing to know little about it. Reminds me of 2006 hatchet piece from the left that appeared in the National Journal 17yrs earlier. That was hilariously hallucinatory too. Manufactured outrage is good clickbait on both sides, I guess. Both sides amplify disinformation often originating overseas because of course democracies live in the center and adversaries have read Sun Tzu.

    PeakMetrics analysis shows this hit job meme was plucked for Russian propaganda (or worse). Probably places like RT realize that with PeakMetrics' tracking abilities, foreign influence campaigns are more easily exposed. So they have to attack PeakMetrics itself. Nick and Bobby and company doing important work, supporting disinformation detection.

    I should add the Federalist 14th Amendment Section 3 story about Baude and Sachs here... Baude's first big paper cites our defeasible work re:meaning, and I cited him right back. So now he's gunning for Trump: "... shall [not] have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." Defeasibility as de-disability?




    Wash U colleagues seemed appalled that I accepted the invitation to be a main speaker at the ITEST Interfaith Science, Technology, and Theology retreat among SLU Catholics (even a nun in a habit in attendance). 2005. But now that AI ethics concerns are all the rage, and our AAAI President gets an audience with the Pope in Rome, I'm posting the picture of me professing at the pulpit.

    I equated individual worker automation with institutional role automation in society. The decades-in-progress death-by-a-thousand-cuts inflicted on humanity when interfacing decision proxying nonhumans, or institutional humans with no decision authority of their own, was worse than R2D2 going all HAL or Agent Smith on us. Worry first about PayPal account hijacking, nuclear plant control mishaps and internet horrors before AI threatens you personally and physically, unless you are a Wall Street trader without a high speed ticker box. In any case, i concluded, it was traffic lights and a's that don't smell different from b's that were ruining my dog's enjoyment of her world, and somehow AI was responsible for even this. (Full text HERE)




    Apparently the address where I spent most of my childhood was rebuilt as a big new house for Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie. Looks a lot nicer with his budget. Where he has a pool I remember climbing a plumeria tree, hoops on a downhill slanted cracked concrete slab (missed free throws rolled back to you), and digging in the mud. I suspect he lost a lot of the original views of the ocean in order to improve privacy. His wife and daughter offered me a tour but I had to be somewhere else.




    Been thinking about this tintype lately. Found it on ebay over a decade ago as a portrait of two young women, and immediately recognized it as our Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii, on her way to England for school, pictured with her tutor. Could be her last image in Hawaii as heir to the throne. Monarchies disappeared, ok, but her image remains beloved in the islands. I strongly believe this is Zoe Atkinson with her, one of her favorite friends, future headmistress of a girls' school (her father Alatau Atkinson was superintendant of all schools, educated at Rugby, teacher at Durham, and friend of the Scottish father of Princess Kaiulani). Zoe was born in Newcastle, died in Devon, all Oahu and Maui in between. I got the image from an antiquarian photo dealer in Chicago, where Zoe's brother's estate was passed down (he married a Taft and was appointed by a Teddy). Her Chicago brother was probably given the photo by sister Zoe (there is a famous sitting of both families a year or two earlier, where A.L.C. "Jack" is being matched with the princess, but he went to Yale Law and found a different path in life: national politics, acting governor of Hawaii). Her cookbooks and valuable collection of original south sea explorers' books were on auction in LA shortly prior to the ebay buy. She married a famous biologist in UK, but is known for her own time in Hawaii as the Queen's ball planner, and a lovely socialite (the popular tradition of Hawaiian-language etched bracelets for precious teens in the islands was started with Zoe Atkinson by Queen Liliuokalani).

    Kaiulani bloomed in England. She and the islands would be much transformed in the short time that she was there. Her friend Robert Louis Stevenson would never see her again and would die in Samoa in sympathy with the fall of her monarchy; she would herself die of illness, though according to legend, of heartbreak for her islands and for the Hawaiian people. That's Kaiulani's artistic reference to the peacocks at Ainahau hanging on the wooden gate. I recognized my princess by her hat, her shoes, her satin collarette, and her nose; I recognized my island by the windows, the wood, the light, and the dirt. Hard to believe, but true: my dirt, our dirt, Honolulu's earth and soil. Kaiulani expert Mindi Reid (herself half Hawaiian, half Scot) says don't miss the argyle socks proudly on display. I now believe if doctors had known how to treat pneumonia, and had she been a more serious student, she could have been elected the first democratic female leader of Hawaii by the early or mid-1930s.

    Some people are fascinated by young Kaiulani's brief meetings with the established author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was certainly an interesting collision of great personalities, if tragically badly timed.

    As for the Atkinsons, one of Alatau's students in Honolulu famously brought democracy, and the fall of monarchy, to China around 1911. Interesting times to live in.




    Photo I took of Giannis Antetokounmpo visiting Cleveland as MVP. Not yet a champion, but would be the next year.



    NOTES FOR 40TH COLLEGE REUNION RED BOOK

    Famous AI guy once said "you're just like Feynman, only not as smart!"
    I'll take it.
    Academic hero Herb Simon likely confused my brother with me.
    Harvard's Quine
    wrote to apologize for not reading my claims on truth and assertability more carefully.
    Introduced Baku-born friend Zadeh as "a national treasure"
    (ours, not theirs, but the statue is in Baku).

    US President called me "skinnybones" in the 70s,
    published me as "slender" and "Chinese" in the 80s,
    noted my "fascinating work" in philosophy of law via 90s email,
    and penned about my "enthusiasm" (implying that it should be curbed?)
    on official stationery from the House (the White one).
    Another high school classmate and BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL star
    calls me "Ronnie" on facebook
    and she's the only one who does that.

    Met Danny Pearl when he was interning in Boston.
    Later he convinced his dad to let me deliver a book to his kid sister at Stanford.
    Dad got the Turing, but son gave me the trust.

    Randomly commented on a teen AMERICAN IDOL contestant's youtube
    that she should sing
    OVER THE RAINBOW;
    she replied with a heart emoji and a month later she sang it.
    Best ever? 1M views.

    Sent the Dutch greatest saxophonist
    (not just the greatest Dutch saxophonist)
    a mix tape to the Amsterdam address she gave me.
    I think her MY FUNK is a reply to CHOCOLATE CITY which was on that tape.
    Had a Dutch professor write in a book that I am
    "the author of one of the most beautiful opening lines ever".
    I admit it was inspired by the semicolon structure that opens Keynes' 1908 thesis.
    God I love the Dutch; God I love semicolons.

    Traded barbs with Justice Scalia on Supreme Court "disrespect" for stare decisis.
    Wrote an awk programming manual with a Harvard freshman then decided to shelve it
    because he said he wanted to sit on the Court someday.
    Currently Scalia Professor of Law at Harvard.

    Shared an awards stage with the guy who gave us Unix
    and shared pizza with the guy who would give us MacOS.
    Both during grad school.
    Still have my SocSci106 final paper for Prof Oettinger
    where I discussed "dysinformation" as a form of war in 1982.
    Y'all misspelling it.

    Invited a fave philosopher named Dan Dennett
    to shoot pool on my table because he was a fellow Harvard grad.
    Next I see he's got a full page photo in an encyclopedia of philosophy.
    Two future tech billionaires also shot on my table when they were just artist/programmers in St Louis.
    Magic 8 ball?

    Helped start a company that went up against ex-CIA/ex-FBI director William Webster's
    competing startup;
    they were the university's favored insider, so we lost.
    Co-founded a company that was soon joined in the space
    by the winners of the Harvard College tech startup competition.
    Changed direction; still going.

    '82 pal thanked
    "Ronald P. Loui, Paul Romer, ... Lawrence H. Summers, Hal Varian, Janet Yellen"
    in a paper:
    alphabetical order?
    I have a screen grab of a "Microsoft founder" looking at my linkedin profile.
    Was that for his AI Lab or his NBA team?

    '83 Jeff R straightened out the Hebrew for "encompasseth" so I see that it's the Balikh that waters Eden.
    That soon led to my 1:2, but 1:5 after "100" fit of Torah years to our years,
    of which I am newly quite proud.

    CHICAGO TRIBUNE said my perfect, beautiful dog looked like Audrey Hepburn.

    Got a nice copy of LETTERS OF MRS ADAMS two volumes in vellum for my wife's birthday.

    That's it. Hope it's been worth the trouble.

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    DOCS AND PRE-MEDS ETC IN FAMILY TREE

    GRANDFATHER IMMIGRATED Feb 29, 1912 (though his father had visited HNL 1880, worked StL Fair in 1904, endured SF EQUAKE 1906)
    
    		7 CHILDREN		23 GRANDCHILDREN	CURRENT
    
    		[<PHD]			[DPh]+[DPh]		[DPh] [DPh]+[DPh] .	BRANCH:  UCB/UCD/UCSD/UCLA
    					[DDS]
    					[MD]			. [MDPHD] .+[MD]
    					.
    					.+[PHD]			..
    
    		.			.						BRANCH:  UC?
    					[DPh]			...
    					.
    
    		[PHD]			[JD]+[JD]		[PHD]			BRANCH:  UCB/UWISCONSIN/OBERLIN
    
    		[MD]			[MD]			.. [MD] [MD] 		BRANCH:  UCB/STANFORD/UCLA/UCSF
    					[MD]			[<MD?] [<MD?]
    					[MD]+[JD]		..
    					.
    					[MD]+[MDPHD]		.
    
    		[MD]+[MD]		[PHD]			.+[MD] .		BRANCH:  UCB/PENN/HARVARD/MIT/STANFORD/YALE/BROWN/MAYO/NYU/DARTMOUTH/SWARTHMORE/BRYNMAWR/LSE/USC/UCSB/UCSD/UIUC/BU/EARLHAM 
    					[JDMBA]+[JD]		+[MD] [JD]+[JD] [<JD]
    					.
    					[MD]			... [<JD] [<PHD]
    					[PHD] ←←← me
    
    		[<MD?]									BRANCH:  UCB
    
    		.+[DDS]			.+[MDPHD]		....			BRANCH:  UCB/HARVARD/STANFORD/PRINCETON
    					[JD]			[<PHD]
    					[MD]+[MDPHD]		..
    					.			...
    
    Includes:  Lt Cmdr ONR USN Reserve WW2 and Korea decades of engineering on SR-71 & strategic nuclear, Capt USAF 58th Tactical Hospital Korea, Mechanic USAAF China Burma India C-46 Transport WW2.  DoD civilian contractors at Hickam USAFB computer networks, contract work for USAF AFRL and USASC consulting on USN/USMC F/A-18 EF & G and for DHS & NSA, USAF startup accelerators program for disinformation detection, US State Dept cyber security.
    
    On my Hawaii family side, uncle in US Army WW2 founding design company with decades of USN contracts, also US Army Artillery WW2, USMC Kaneohe Vietnam era.
    














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    DATA SCIENTIST'S NEW TIMELINE FOR OLD T
    (Much based on prior work of Yale's Weiss/Hayes and Harvard's Stager, Princeton's Weinstein, Hebrew U's Finkelstein/Maier, Rabbi Dr. Zucker, Prof. Rendsburg, and others)
    Lunar Accounting pre-Deluge, then Counting Sh-N-H Biannually in Upper Mesopotamia, bonus after 120, 1:1 after Torah
    

    SYRO-TURKIC WINTER/SPRING PLANTING CYCLES MAR-APR AND OCT-DEC: 2x/12mo, 2 SHANIM:1 YEAR NINEVITE-V PERIOD ENDS ON KHABUR/HABOR, c. 2600BCE FOUNDING OF ASSUR, c. 2600BCE DEFENSIVE WALL AT URKESH ON KHABUR/HABOR, c. 2600BCE DEFENSIVE WALL AT TELL LEILAN ON KHABUR/HABOR, c. 2600BCE E-SEMITIC KISHITE KINGDOM OF NAGAR/NAWAR ON KHABUR/HABOR AT TELL BRAK, c. 2600BCE E-SEMITIC/KISHITE MARI ABANDONED, c. 2550BCE AMORITES APPEAR IN SUMERIAN RECORDS, c. 2500BCE AMORITE STORM GOD HADAD/HADDA ATTESTED IN EBLA AFTER KISH CIV, c. 2500BCE E-SEMITIC/KISHITE EBLA, c. 2500BCE NW-SEMITIC HARRAN FOUNDED ON BA'AL-IKH RIVER, c. 2500BCE NW-SEMITIC AMORITE AND E-SEMITIC EBLAITE, JOIN E-SEMITIC AKKADIAN, c. 2400BCE HADAD'S HEPAT/EVE(?) WORSHIPED IN E-SEMITIC EBLA DURING IRKAB-DAMU, 2340BCE NW-SEMITIC/W-HURRIAN EBLA WORSHIP OF ISHARA/ISARA/ASHERAH(?) DISTINCT FROM ISHTAR/ASTARTE, 2300BCE E-SEMITIC SARGONIC/AKKADIAN EMPIRE, 2334-2154BCE NW-SEMITIC AMORITE/MAR-TU TRIBES DESTROY E-SEMITIC EBLA, 2250BCE E-SEMITIC NARAM-SIN LOCATES NW-SEMITIC AMORITE TRIBES AT JEBEL-BISHRI, 2240BCE TELL LEILAN/BRAK 4.2 ka BP DROUGHT EVENT IN KHABUR/HABOR AND BALIKH BASINS, c. 2200-1900BCE VOLCANIC TEPHRA FALL PHASE I LAYER TELL LEILAN, c. 2200BCE LAKE VAN FALLS 30-60m FROM DROUGHT, c. 2190BCE E-SEMITIC SARGONIC/AKKADIAN DYNASTY ENDS, 2154BCE 2148 In the Beginning, ie, at the end of E-Semitic Mesopotamia, beginning of Mar-Tu/Amorite era, Pison/Gihon=Baalikh+upperEuphrates/Habor, Havilah=(H)Ebla(h) 2148 b. Adam=Haadam (human), first legendary W-Semite Balikh/Khabur River nomad to engage urban agriculturalists during historic regional drought and Karaca Dag activity, E-Semitic empire collapse GUDEA OF NON-AMORITE, NON-ELAMITE, NON-SUMERIAN(?) LAGASH, r. 2144-2124BCE 2134 b. Cain, first recorded W-Semite Khabur River downmigrant, (unsuccessful) agriculturalist, and urbanist of note, Ab-el is theophoric 2129 b. Seth, fatherhoods will be 13.5-19, lifespans 74-81 until Noah 2112 b. Enos, first of three where Torah drops lead digit of fatherhood age, see Josephus NEO-SUMERIAN THIRD DYNASTY OF UR, UR-III, 2112-2004BCE 2096 b. Cainan NEO-SUMERIAN SHULGI-OF-UR-III, r. 2094-2047BCE 2082 b. Mahal-al-el 2068 b. Irad/Jared 2054 b. Enoch=Shekhna?, alive to comment on birth of Noah according to Gen Apocryphon, leaves Khabur tribes for Watchers (eugenic warrior-priest-scientists) in Balikh area, actually lives (unrecorded) to about 1979 NEO-SUMERIAN SHULGI STARTS AMURRU/MARDU WALL TO RESIST DISPLACED AMORITES, 2054BCE AKKAD-GUTI-UR III COLLAPSE SYNCHRONIC WITH CLIMATE DISRUPTION IN AEGEAN, EGYPT, INDUS RVC, c. 2050BCE AMORITES FOUND ALALAKH, 2050BCE 2040 b. Methus-el-ah 2024 b. Lamech, dies same year as Methuselah, 1959, indicating non-natural deaths NEO-SUMERIAN SHU-SIN CONTINUES AMURRU/MARDU WALL TO RESIST DISPLACED AMORITES, 2034BCE E-SEMITIC PUZUR-ASHUR-I FOUNDS FIRST ASSYRIAN STATE, 2025BCE 2009 b. No-ah, Lamech worried that Noah is the son of Watchers AMORITE ISHBI-ERRA TAKES NEO-SUMERIAN ISIN, 2017BCE NEO-SUMERIAN IBBI-SIN DIES, ENDING UR-III, 2004BCE IE HITTITES BEGIN ABSORBING HATTIANS/HETHITES IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA, c. 2000BCE AMORITE KINGDOM OF QATNA BEGINS, c. 2000BCE AMORITE PALACE AT ALALAKH, c. 2000BCE AMORITE TUTTUL WORSHIPING DAGAN UPSTREAM FROM MARI, c. 2000BCE 1973 b. Shem, not a child at Noah's "500"/12=42 if fathering after flood/lahar, likely born to Noah 36, latter family, will father Aram, which names proto-Arameans but location will be farther west HURRIAN FIRST REFERENCE TO TESHUB (HADAD), 1966BCE 1959 Khabur River Lahar/Flood/kataklysmos, upmountain survivors of 20' deep pluvial Karaca Dag tephra mudflow, Mard-in Ark (kite pen, Arg=fortress in Persian, Mardin=fortress in Aramean/Kurdish, Ararat=Urartu in Hebrew=Kiziltepe "Armenian" hill) 1956 b. Arphaxad/Arpachsad, possibly naming Chesed/Kesed/Kasdim/Kasid, locating early northern Chaldeans (Ara=Urfa?) 1938 b. Sal-ah, taken into Arabic as "prayer" 1923 b. Eber/Heber, eponymous progenitor of Hebrews, "to cross over", possibly Habiru 1906 b. Peleg=Balikh, relocates lineage in Western Rojava after Noah in Jazira RESETTLEMENT OF TELL LEILAN AFTER 300YR ABANDONMENT, HEAVY RAIN SPELLS AMID LONG DROUGHT, c. 1900BCE AMORITE FIRST THEOPHORIC HADAD SUFFIX APPEARS, IPIQ-ADAD-I, RULER OF ESHNUNNA c. 1900BCE ELAMITE SUKKALMAH DYNASTY FOUNDED, 1900-1500BCE AMORITE DYNASTY OF BABYLON FOUNDED BY SUMU-ABUM, 1894BCE 1891 b. Reu/Ragau 1875 b. Serug, shorter lifespans from Noah to Terah 53-61 probably related to lingering tephra toxins (see also Jacob's descendants in Avaris living to 55-65) AMORITE SECOND THEOPHORIC HADAD SUFFIX APPEARS, NUR-ADAD, RULER OF LARSA, c. 1868BCE 1860 b. Nahor-I, identifiably Chaldean (astronomy-savvy NW Ahlamu nomads), from whose land and peoples Terah will soon self-exile PROTO-CANAANITE/SINAITIC INSCRIPTIONS (SIN=YARIKH), c. 1850BCE 1845 b. Ter-ah, dies shortly after son Haran dies young 1792?, indicating foul play, see Josephus IE HITTITES ATTACK KANESH/NESHA/KULTEPE IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA, 1833BCE AMORITES/CANAANITES BEGIN IMMIGRATING INTO ASIATIC AVARIS ON NILE DELTA, c. 1830BCE AMORITE/HURRIAN YAMHAD STATE (YAM/ARAM HADAD), HADAD/HALAB/ALEPPO, 1810-1517BCE 1810 b. Abram to Terah in latter family, at 35, 37.5 for Nahor, Haran earlier at 15-20, possibly Abramiel, though Terah's wife Edna's father was also Abram AMORITE HAMMURABI BORN IN BABYLON OLD KINGDOM, 1810BCE AMORITE SHAMASH/SHAMSHI-ADAD-I FOUNDS KINGDOM OF UPPER MESOPOTAMIA, 1808BCE AMORITE YAKBIM FOUNDS LOWER NILE 14TH DYNASTY AT AVARIS, 1805-1650BCE 1805 b. Sarai, possibly sister, but niece according to Josephus, to Haran at 20? Probably Sariel before Sariah AMORITE CONQUEST OF URUK/ISIN, 1787-1784BCE ELAMITE DEITY LAGAMAL ATTESTED IN MARI, SUSA, 1780BCE AMORITE TEMPLE TO SET/CANAANITE BA'AL-HADAD IN AVARIS, c. 1780BCE AMORITE SHAMSHI-ADAD-I DIES IN SHUBAT-ENLIL, KHABUR/HABOR RIVER BASIN, 1776BCE 1773 Abram and Sarai leave Sanliurfa/Harran at ages 37, 32, 19? yrs after Terah dies SHIFTING ALLIANCES OF ELAM WITH AMORITES: MARI, ASSUR, BABYLON, YAMHAD, ESHNUNNA, LARSA, c. 1770BCE 1769 Sarai rebuffs Qareh of Avaris at age 36, Koran, Genesis Apocryphon, Masoretic Text, Jubilees, Josephus all agree on this 1768 Abram defeats laden and spent expedition of Kudu-Zulush(-Lagamal) + Amorite kings, Sodom due East of Jericho on the Northern Plain at age 42 AMORITE ISHME-DAGAN-I-OF-ASSUR REIGN ENDS, 1765BCE AMORITE YARIM-LIM-I-OF-YAMHAD, ALLIED WITH MARI AND ELAM, DIES, 1764BCE AMORITE HAMMURABI-OF-BABYLON (AMMUR-ABI) TURNS ON AMORITE RIM-SIN-I-OF-LARSA, SON OF KUDUR-MABUK-(LAGAMER), 1763BCE 1767 b. Ishma-el, given an Elohist not Yahwist name, though his tribes maybe invent Yahweh ELAMITE GENERAL KUNNAM'S EXPEDITION TO KHABUR/HABOR RIVER BASIN UNDER SIWE-PALAR-KHUPPAK-OF-ELAM, 1762BCE AMORITE ZIMRI-LIM-OF-MARI FALLS TO HAMMURABI-OF-BABYLON, 1761BCE AMORITE HAMMURABI-I-OF-YAMHAD EXTENDS TO KHABUR/HABOR RIVER, 1761BCE 1760 b. Isaac, "laughter will come": circumcision indicates tribal rejection of child sacrifice, perimenopausal Sara-i-ah is possessive -i-ah theophoric for Asherah (Yahweh cult) vs -i-el (Ba'al/Astarte) AMORITE/HABIRU KHANA/HANAEANS EMERGE AT TERQA, 1760BCE AMORITE HAMMURABI-OF-BABYLON COMPOSES LEGAL CODE, 1755-1750BCE AMORITES HAMMURABI-I-OF-YAMHAD AND HAMMURABI-OF-BABYLON, IN DETENTE, BOTH DIE 1750BCE PRE-HITTITE PITHANA CONQUERS KANESH/NESA, c. 1750BCE 1748 Binding of Isaac at 12.5, oblation substitution in Mlk-dm ritual, schism from Eshnunna-Ugarit-Amorite-Hurrian extant Baal-Hadad/Teshub sacrificial cult throughout Amorite Canaan and Mesopotamia ELAMITE SIWE-PALAR-KHUPPAK DIES, 1745BCE 1730 b. Jacob as twin with Esau, whom he will mortally wound at 60, before immigration to Goshen at 62 1690 b. Levi, who exacts revenge on Schechem 10 years later, and b. Judah same year (Irish twin) 1685 b. Joseph to Jacob at 45, sold into slavery 8.5 years later 1673 b. Kehath/Caath/Kohath/Qehat to Levi at 17.5 1670 Joseph helps Salitis found Hyksos 15th Dynasty through land deals 1668 Jacob's extended family enters Goshen, Judah possibly 1667 or 1666 to make time for Tamar events 1657 b. Amram/Ambram, to Kehath at 16, grandson of Levi, with Jochebed "born on the same day" as late daughter of Levi at 33, will birth Moses CANAANITE HYKSOS 15TH DYNASTY BEGINS, c. 1650BCE FIRST IE HITTITE KING HATTUSILI-I ATTACKS YAMHAD'S ALLY ALALAKH, c. 1650BCE 1630 d. Joseph, ending favorable treatment of shepherd kings (1631-1625 Testaments: Sim[e]on, Reu-ben/bel, Jud-ah, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher (vs Asher-ah), Issac-har, and Levi pass at ages 60, 62, 60, 57, 62, 63, 62, 62, 62, 66) SAKIR-HAR HYKSOS RULER, NAME MEANING MEMORY OF HADAD?, TO 1590BCE 1625 b. Moses, under Sakir-Har of Avaris, Kenite Zippor-ah (Midian schism) will be instrumental in YHWH promotion 1605 Moses campaigns south of Thebes on behalf of Avaris, takes Nubian wife IE HITTITE MURSILI-I SACKS YAHMHAD'S ALEPPO, TAKING HAMMURABI-III, c. 1600BCE IE HITTITE MURSILI-I EJECTS AMORITES FROM BABYLON, TAKES MARDUK, 1595BCE THERA ERUPTION AVG OF LATEST CARBON DATING, HELIOPOLIS SPARED BUT NOT AVARIS FROM WINDBORNE ASH CLOUD, 1585BCE 1585 Exodus from Hyksos Apepi in Avaris after impending famine and contumacy/defiance of first-born sacrifice edict after Thera pumice cloud fells northern livestock 1565 Jericho destruction City-IV carbon date THEBAN SEQUENRE-TAO BEGINS CAMPAIGN AGAINST HYKSOS APEPI/APOPHIS BEREFT OF GOSHEN BUFFER, 1560BCE CITADEL CONSTRUCTED IN AVARIS TO RESIST THEBAN KAMOSE, 1550BCE CANAANITE HYKSOS EJECTED FROM GOSHEN BY AHMOSE I, 1552-1531BCE LEVANTINE CAMPAIGNS OF AHMOSE I TO BREAK HYKSOS CITIES, 1548BCE HURRIAN/IE MITTANI/NAHARIN STATE EXTENDS FROM TIGRIS TO ORONTES, c. 1500BCE THUTMOSE-III CAMPAIGNS IN CANAAN/BATTLE OF MEGIDDO 1457BCE 973 First Temple start under Solomon, 612 years after Exodus from Avaris, 592 years after razing Jericho CANAANITE WHEAT LONG PLANTING SEASON OCT-JAN: 1x/12mo, 1 SHANAH:1 YEAR





    18th-17thC BCE MOSES MATH
    

    1810 b. Abram (@43 in 1767) 1805 b. Sarai (5 year diff) 1760 b. Isaac (to Abraham@50, Sarah@45) 1730 b. Jacob (to Isaac@30, Rebekah@25?) 1690 b. Levi (3rd son of Leah's 7, Jacob@40, Leah@18?) 1673 b. Kehath (to Levi@17.5) 1670 b. Hyksos Dynasty with Salitis rise assisted by Hebrew immigrant Joseph 1657 b. Amram (to Kehath@16, Levi@53) 1625 b. Moses (3rd of 3, Amram@35, Jochebed@35) 1585 d. Akrotiri in Thera Eruption, destroying Avaris food supply (recent carbon dates) 1565 d. Jericho City-IV (recent carbon date) 1550 d. Avaris Pelusian captial of Hyksos Dynasty





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    Most programmers these days aren't trained by good programmers ...
    
    They don't care about user experience;
    They get A's for commenting their code
    




    Machine Learning hides its
    relevant small samples in
    irrelevant large training sets




    
    Sarah was 45 (not 90)
    
    Do the math
    




    
    We scripted to be light, free, and agile;
    
    Today's "scripting":  heavy rigid frameworks
    




    
    
    Unix tools: Do ONE THING and DO IT WELL is vim really an improved vi? So many modes.




    
    Probability could connect points on the path
    Not just discount utilities at some horizon
    
    




    
    I studied Probability, Fallibility, Corrigibility, Belief Revision, Defeasance:
    Have some humility with your assertions.
    When you are always adamant, I wonder about your belief formation process.
    
    




    
    If you throw away specificity defeaters
    You throw away your argument logic
    
    




    
    Ad Hominem is not a fallacy in inductive logic:
    Rate your sources when you assess probabilities!
    
    




    
    Mandatory insurance for AI
    is coming soon
    
    Two words for claimants:  proportional liability
    




    
    Payoff Matrix = Wrong Idea:
    
    It matters not what you can get, But what you can do with it.




    
    Transactional value:  
    Not just What, but How, Why, and Whom
    
    You can't buy the smile that you can get just by being nice. And you have to know how to value that smile.




    
    Utility calculus
    
    Should shift at each Maslow level, duh.




    
    "It's good exercise."
    Something you don't hear much anymore.
    
    Weak People → Automation → Weaker People




    
    
    We maybe just found a bug in pthread_mutex_lock: be very scared




    
    
    I like my personal discipline and creativity, Better than their awful automation




    
    
    Don't tell me you have an argument; tell me why your argument beats the counterarguments.




    
    
    awk + cgi = fast, clean, simple, eternal




    
    EDEN: FOUR HEADS IN PADDAN ARAM
    

    Pison = Balikh and upper Euphrates including Harran Plain Gihon = Habor Triangle including Tells Leilan, Halaf, Mozan, Brak Hiddekel = Tigris from Subartu toward Assur Perath = Euphrates below Tuttul or Terqa





    
    bash syntax is awful.  awk is clean:  
    

    #! /usr/bin/awk -f # this is bash calling awk while ("ls" | getline) # this is awk calling bash





    
    Probability intervals measure your ignorance.
    
    Point probabilities demonstrate it.
    
    




    
    If your rules aren't a bit defeasible
    Your meanings aren't very specifiable
    
    




    
    It's not really ethics training most decent people need;
    It's better epistemics.
    
    




    
    Isn't all implicature defeasible inference?
    Isn't all analogy defeasible inference?
    Aren't all decision and risk analyses defeasible?
    Aren't all statistical arguments defeasible?
    




    
    Procedural justice is when process produces justified non-equivalent
    outcomes according to rules that transform inputs to outputs in an
    appropriately constrained way, usually monotonic in a shared concept of
    merit, at least probabilistically, and usually efficient in time; it is
    a more advanced social concept than distributive equality, aka equity,
    though it usually contains equality of opportunity or at least adequate
    opportunity to respond; and this concept of justice stands at the heart
    of constructive social reality, law, political economy, and civilized
    games/contests/tournaments/trials.
    




    
    CS curriculum does so much damage allowing boolean minds to hide behind boolean logic.
    If anyone really cared, they'd get taught probability, even engineering epistemology.
    




    
    Pretty sure a NN classifier is just doing rule induction
    with nodes for exceptional subclasses
    and exceptions to exceptions
    with some quasi-linears and some quasi-booleans.
    It's got to be lying about small sample projection confidence.
    I call it indecent induction.
    Should monitor its meta, and visualize its sample specificities.
    




    
    
    Perfection in multiple dimensions necessitates ostensible suboptimality in each
    
    




    
    Software Today:
    
    unnecessary bloat 
    and
    insufficient testing
    
    




    
    
    If you report a propensity over a reference class with inconsistent subclasses,
    you might as well just report the mean of a bimodal.
    
     Medicine and social science do this a lot.
    
    




    
    Lotta engineers
    
    Trying to save pennies in one dimension
    While paying a lotta $ in another
    
    




    
    AI:
    AGI and Singularity are Hype
    But IDIOCRACY is Real
    




    
    We are here to help start careers
    Not end them
    
    




    
    Serious US engineers still the best:
    Integrity + Practicality + Thought
    
    




    
    FAVORITE JAZZ SAX
    
    1960 - Felder/Cannonball
    1970 - Grover/Getz/Gato/Gyra
    1980 - Scott/Sonny/Sanborn
    1990 - Candy Dulfer
    2000 - Candy Dulfer
    2010 - Candy Dulfer
    2020 - Candy Dulfer
    









    VERY QUICK SUMMARY OF SECRETS FROM 50YRS BUILDING DIY HIFI SPEAKERS

  • Simple box enclosure is fine, but get your mids/highs mounted above the box as dipole radiators (B&W style). A slight roll at the edges of the box can be helpful if you find you must locate the mid or high on the face. Supplementary backfiring tweeters at angles can sometimes help (though you are trading phase integrity for artificial sense of space).
  • You want the listener to sense the space, not just consume forward-radiation. This is part of the problem with studio engineers recording in small, hard-surfaced rooms.
  • Crossover is fine for low end and high end, but the mid should bypass the electronics which will introduce slew rate and phase issues. RLC circuits are your enemy unless you are protecting a tweeter from blowing or quieting the upper range of a woofer. I think most amps have better tone controls than speakers have acceptable crossovers.
  • I prefer small ribbon planar magnetic panels for the mids/highs and omit the traditional tweeter (more likely adds problems than adds imaging). But electrostatics and planar magnetics can be too precisian without a cone or horn in the mix. Sometimes you need something that will buzz, flare, or just move the air.
  • A compression horn will help reproduce brass timbres and dynamics, but needs to be amped separately or pointed backwards because it is too efficient. Or just give it its own volume puck.
  • In fact, if you want the character of a particular source, you should reproduce it with a similar material: ribbon edge for guitar strings, horns for horns, metals for metals, carbon/graphite/wood/high-density paper cones for natural percussion instruments, body-radiating larger strings, and woodwinds. The Heil AMT accordion driver is excellent for voice, though silk tweeters might be better. Think about waveforms, not transforms. It's a simple question of the material's tendency to comply with or resist the generation of a complex waveform with sequential vibration, and of course the harmonics.
  • Bass should be infinite baffle, unless you are driving disco speakers. Port rhymes with distort. Nothing wrong with disco bass, but it's a lot higher in the woofer frequency range than people realize. And for disco, you need punch, so driver flexibility and excursion: less stiff polypropylene, or port.
  • There is no perfect single speaker design because the source material is mixed in studio so variably; this can be even more pronounced than the geometry of the room in which the speakers find themselves (well) placed. At different volumes, different driver mixes will have different dynamics. That's actually desirable. So your dance speakers are not the same design as your audiophile critical listening full-attention ones; why would you expect them to be?
  • Sometimes you want an 8" bass, sometimes dual 10". In one build, I have a 5.25" pair in each monitor, with the crossover point low as one might find on an 8" or 10" woofer. Woofer crossover is more important than size, though enclosure needs volume. I've had 14" ported, but it's too slow. You want a modern material like a woven carbon, that's 8-10" ideally. This does take some power, but not a huge amount, and clipping protection is not your main concern here. I've never had success with a 6.5" low, or pair of lows, but 8", 10", dual 10", and ported 10" all have worked for me. Recently took a 6.25" cabinet and stuck an 8" woofer in the hole, turning the face down so it had depth, not height. That worked though I added a second over low-pass filter for good measure.
  • A single channel sub, or even unmatched driver sizes in two woofer enclosures, can help you avoid standing interference in a room.
  • One design places tweeters and midranges at 90-degree angles front-firing and back-slope firing. That actually works, though you get more depth and reverb than stereo image. I like bipolar designs. I like a full range (planar) without crossover rather than separate mids and tweeters. I like 4" drivers with inner and outer suspension, then an uncrossed 8" woofer to fill the upper midbass.
  • We tend to have 2-ohm and lower nominal resistance the way I do things, which is really bad for amps. Better to biamp and control hi/low balance that way. 3-way? Make it 6-drivers per side, 3-amps each side. That's better than electronic control by far, and will bring resistance back up. Nice thing is, you don't need big power except at the woofer, and you might have an active subwoofer in there with its own amp.
  • You can use electronic bass boost and avoid messing with phase, but try not to reshape it. This is why I dislike tuned ports, though modern small bass driver and enclosure design can be amazing. I prefer switchable or attenuable redundant elements over tone control. One guy says the best $1000 speakers are two pairs of $500, which I agree with. Recorded material has no tone reference these days, nor across eras/sources. So be flexible.
  • Shannon-Nyquist does not apply to non-infinite-repeating waveforms that are not superpositions of sine functions. That said, the problem is mostly for D2A conversion on the way out, not A2D during sampling (thing is, if you step over a spike, possible even with oversampling, you'll miss all the instantaneous power across all audible frequencies; percussive strikes and violin strings have waveforms with little jiggles in them like spikes). If you have all-electronic musical instruments, maybe not so important. If you want to restore localization lost through phase jumbling, you can do funky things at the transduction.
  • Think of wavelets, not just Fourier transforms. Hear the analogue of localized jpeg-like image compression.
  • Think of dynamics, phase, and waveform sympathy, not frequency response. Think of internal and external volumes.
  • Perfect symmetry is not necessary. In fact, asymmetric drivers with different resonances can add some interest to bland digital recordings that have had phase jumbled by layers of electronics. Restores localization of source within the soundstage.
  • Instead of using electronics to mix the drivers, I prefer choosing drivers that overlap, exposing direct natural sweet spots, but overriding each other's weak ranges.
  • One way to keep the phase coherent, and increase the dispersion for wider listening angles, is to align drivers around a central vertical column, but not insist that all be front-firing. Do not separate mids/highs more than an inch or two in the horizontal plane. Bass towers can be separate, but that's not ideal.
  • Admit that most designs will sound different to a prone, seated, or standing listener, and different to an on- vs off-axis listener. You can't control the angle of the ears on the head either, or the hair, the pillow, or the hands behind the head. All of these things will affect the sound more than the feet, the cables, the L/R balance, or the driver sensitivity manufacturing mismatch, which do not produce first-order effects. Phase, however, is a primay issue and too often ignored. Frequency range is a primary concern, though frequency response itself (e.g., flatness), is a secondary concern and mostly a marketing lie (how does flatness change with reference signal?).
    BEFORE:
    AFTER (SOUNDS BETTER):





    A FEW GENESIS TRANSLITERATION CORRECTIONS AND ETYMOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES
    

  • 2:11-12
    Pison = Balikh plus Upper Euphrat Rivers; Note Peleg -> Palig -> Palik -> Balik, gold and onyx in upper headwaters of Anatolian Taurus. Havilah -> HVLH -> HBLH -> EBLA, reinforcing the interpretation including the upper Euphrat Otherwise why mention Balikh first? Later references to Ismael and Saul, and later meanings such as 'stretch of sand' or circle of abundance are from later named person. Balikh probably references Ba'al and/or Bal/Bel.
  • 2:13
    Gihon = Habor/Khabur/Habur where we find Gozan/Guzana/Tell Halaf, Nawar/Nagar/Tell Brak Also the later Kingdom of Khana. Cush = Kish = the East Semite areas near Mari/Mari-Tu upriver but dominated by the city Kish, especially by earlier East Semitic Akkadians. Maybe even Urkesh/Tell Mozan, possibly Kuth/Kutha cultic center of Nergal who reigned Kur (cf. Kurda, E-Semitic city of Nergal). Cush much later known as area near Ethiopia Gihon later adopted for other spring-fed rivers, e.g., famously near Jeru-Salem.
  • 2:14
    Hiddekel = Tigris, on the east toward Assur. The fourth river Euphrat would make sense in a west-east enumeration only if its upper regions are considered Pison; rotate the map 30° clockwise and consider the system south of Jebel Bishri joining near Mari.
  • 2:15
    This defines Eden (DN) as traditional Padan (PDN) Aram (Aram = region cf. Arameans, Armi/Armanum, also Armenian legendary ancestor Aram)/Aram Narhraim (cf. Nahor). Perhaps includes areas East into Syrian Jazira toward Zakho and west into Eber-Nahri toward Adanya, i.e. Rojava. Haran and Urfa (in the Haran/Hurrian Plain of Sanliurfa Province) are the centers here. Haran is later Carrhae and Urfa Edessa, historical places of important pre- and post-exilic Neo-Assyrian vs. Neo-Babylonian and Roman vs. Parthian battles. Haran is a cult center for Sin the moon god (Yarikh), possibly a constant counterforce against Ba'al Hadad. Gobekli Tepe and the Karahan Tepe complexes are in this region but were 6000+ yrs older (and buried), likely not even known through legend. This area is culturally coherent for the Kurds today, but also for the Subartans, early Ahlamu Chaldeans, Hurrians, Mittani, Assyrians, and others. It is essentially the foothill headwater-hopping perfect place for transhumance pastoralist raiders down rivers, then back into defensible positions. I liken it to the 210 in LA: compare downhill highways to downvalley rivers.
  • 2:21
    Interpolating other creation myths such as Egypt's Set/Horus (testicles), and Sumer's Enki/Ninti (many body parts). Adam = DM = human (compare MLK-DM ritual vs MLK, DM denotes human sacrifice, Ha'adam = human), later Edom = red. Adam is not the first human but the first notable Ahlamu West Semite chief with a legacy and lineage. Eve = HVH -> HV -> HP -> Hep-at -> Hebat (love) references the West Semitic goddess found attested in Ugarit, Emar, Ebla, Aleppo/Halab/Mardikh/Aram/Armi, Kummanni, etc. Hepat refers to liver today, not rib. Eve is consort of Hadda/Adad/Adu/Teshub/Teshup, therefore similar to Ishtar/Astarte consort of Ba'al, though confusion is rampant.
  • 3:24
    East of the Garden, a "flaming sword" describes a shoulder venting (phreatic eruption) of Karaca Dag volcano, aka Mount Masius, at the head of the west-most Khabur tributary. Urfa to Mardin and Haran to Tell Halaf are due east, south of Diyar Bakr containing the volcano.
  • 4:2
    Abel is theophoric with -el suffix, at this time and in this place to Ba'al Hadad.
  • 4:17
    A city named Enoch in the Khabur region could be Tell Leilan/Shekhna. Enoch -> HNK -> HKN -> SKN -> SKNH.
  • 4:18
    Enoch's children Mehu-ja-el and Methu-sa-el carry the theophoric -el ending. Enoch's later company on the Balikh in Book of Enoch profess this allegiance (see Watchers' names, most ending in -el or even -iel).
  • 4:19
    Lamech's wives Ad-ah and Zill-ah are the first with theophoric -ah ending. This is possibly an early reference to Asher-ah; note men and women carry the -ah suffix (-at is the Hebrew femininizing appendix).
  • 5:30
    No-ah carries the theophoric -ah ending but some have his name as Noe, possibly just a French respelling.
  • 6:14
    Noah builds an ark (ark = arg = fortress in Persian = Mardin in Kurdish; ark w.r.t. covenant is scale model of a fortress pier?). The dimensions are implausible just in terms of materials, especially at altitude in an area with active volcanic activity. But a desert kite, mainly open, with a roofed structure on one end would work. Mardin contains the Eagle's Nest which is an impressive fortress currently used as a NATO signals intelligence site. Mardin's plateau top dimensions would contain the Noah fortress, 50 cubits wide = 75'. There is a close match on the narrow end that overlooks the rivers below from the southern projection.
  • 7:12
    Forty days is not unusual persistent rain, if intermittent. Also possibly constant forty days taking a wide scope within a region of moving intermittent rains (e.g., it rained for 40 days throughout the Midwest).
  • 7:20
    Fifteen cubits, 20-22 ft depth, involving tops of mountains is implausible as a river flood. River floods are commonplace even in valleys, usually with many survivors. A lahar, a mudslide in a volcanic valley with mixed tephra and pumice, would be uncommon and extremely devastating. A lahar would kill birds (with nostrils) or at least drive them from the region, unlike after a flood. Harvey Weiss's Yale archaeology team puts a volcanic lahar (or lahars) at Tell Leilan and nearby settlements c. 2000BCE, as rain returned to the region after massive long-term drought. To escape a massive lahar, moving upmountain would work. Flood is the same word as lahar in Greek, i.e., kataklysmos. The concept of lahar as different from flood required the terminology of volcanology, observation across different volcanic sites, and over nontrivial periods of time.
  • 8:4
    Ararat in Hebrew = Urartu, the Urartu/Subartu people who occupied anti-Taurus mountans as far south as Mardin. Kiziltepe = Tell Armen = Armenian Hill is in the area of Mardin. Mount Cudi (Bari?) is on the same front range, a short distance to the east.
  • 9:18
    Shem is hardly the first Semite, not even the first West Semite.
  • 10:2
    Japheth (cf. Jephthah later, -chet consonant appended, as well as Hethites, maybe Hatti, confused with IE Hittites/Kanes/Nesa/Kutepe) Japheth has a son Tu-bal with theophoric -bal indicating continuation of Ba'alist thought. Thus the evil/wickedness of Ba'alist theology is not wiped out by flood But the evil of horticultural sciences (see Book of Jubilees) perhaps was eliminated in the Khabur ag village areas.
  • 10:6
    Mizraim perhaps an Amorite who went to Goshen c. 1930BCE; this is a bit early but early sojourners possible. Canaan certainly did not found the Canaanite tribes, and West Amorites would have been in Canaan for 500yrs or more c. 1930BCE.
  • 10:8
    Nimrod fits the time period of Sumu-Abum, founder of West Amorite Old Babylon Empire, r. 1897-1883. Sumu-Abum makes no boast as King of Babylon, despite being credited as founding an empire there (later Hammurabi's empire), so Babylon was small prior to his rise. Sumu-Abum controlled Uruk/Erech by marriage, and Kish, which may be adjacent to Akkad/Accad or in any case close by (see rise of Sargon of Akkad from Kish). Calneh/Kalneh matches the syllabary of adjacent Kish-Kidnum-Kutha on the Tigris side of the narrow, opposite Bilbat-Barsippa-Babylon; this is the region near current Baghdad.
  • 10:10
    No longer about Nimrod, this next list of cities refers to Shamsi-Adad-I, who took Assur, originally from Ekallatum. Nineveh/Ninua and Calah/Kalhu are very near Assur, all in the region of modern Mosul. Nimrud is very likely misnamed based on misreading this line as a Nimrod reference. Although 100yrs apart, the founding of the Old Babylonian and the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia are watershed moments in the Amorite takeover of Mesopotamia, so they make some sense juxtaposed. Mizraim-Goshen is even later historically though textually adjacent before and after Sumu-Abum and Shamsi-Adad-I.
  • 10:21
    Eber -> HBR -> Habiru/Hapiru -> Hebrews.
  • 10:22
    Arphaxad -> Arpachsad -> Chesed/Kesed -> Kasdim -> Chaldeans Though Terah did not think Chaldeans had Chesed (kindness) after losing Haran, according to Josephus Antiquities. Chaldeans constantly referred to as learned esp. with knowledge of astronomical events. See also Southern Mesopotamian Apkallu, and see also Watchers, the latter occupying the Balikh area pre-Deluge. This is where Terah-era Chaldeans are also found, so Balikh River scholar/sages continue throughout catastrophic flood events on the Khabur. Shem begets Elam, and Elam the political entity has been in existence for 1300yrs by 1950BC. But Amorites take high positions in the Susa-Isin-Larsa region in this Sukkulmah time, e.g., Kudur-Mabuk in Susa.
  • 10:25
    Peleg after Balikh? Or vice versa?
  • 10:26
    This Havilah person (named after Ebla? cf. Elam) moves south to establish a new geographical referent close to the Sinai?
  • 11:1
    The earth [ = Amorite lands populated thus far] spoke one language: West Semitic Amorite.
  • 11:7
    A ziggurat would have required Sumerian and Akkadian expertise. For more languages, consider possible Elamite assistance, even Indus River Valley laborers. Maybe a predecessor to later Etemenanki in Babylon or a predecessor structure to later Dur-Kurigalzu was this Tower of Babel. These named ziggurats are dated later in historical timeline, though ziggurat construction dates to earlier times.
  • 11:28
    Ur of the Chaldees is Urfa in Sanliurfa Province. There is so much evidence for this that asserting Terah came from coastal Ur of Sumer is laughable if not outright academic fraud. Consider Prof. Rendsburg's trade route argument through Palmyra/Tadmor. Also the preference for elevation, the pluvial theology of the north, the names, especially referential in Padan Aram. The later biblical references to the location of Padan Aram, close enough for Jacob to join Laban. The number of empires at war they would have to cross through. The fact that the Chaldeans did not move south into Babylon for another 500+ years.
  • 12:11
    "Egypt" = Goshen, pre-Hyksos Canaanite 14th Dynasty of the lower Nile (northern delta).
  • 12:15
    "Pharaoh" = King of Avaris, Qareh [= bald in West Semitic]. Avaris is near Tanis, later Pi-Ramses.
  • 13:10
    First mention of Zoar, with the "plain" of Jordan. Jordan has no well-watered plains approaching from the south, until the Moabite Plain in the land of Jordan; there are no other good candidates if plain is translated correctly.
  • 14:1
    Amraph-el = Hammurapi of Babylon = Hammurabi the Great, not yet the big player among Amorite kingdoms, not yet betraying his former allies. Chedor is Kudur, worshiping -lagamal/lagamer, possibly Rim-Sin-I of Larsa, younger son of Kudur Mabuk an Amorite chief in Elam. Rim-Sin-I's dates and alliances match well, reigning 1822-1763BCE (a long 59yrs!). To make war on Canaan and the Levant from Southern Mesopotamia c. 1767BCE, one has to pass through Mari and Qatna (eastern and southwestern modern Syria). Zimri-Lim had just been reinstalled as ruler of Mari, c. 1767BCE, loaning troops to Hammurabi when Babylon turns on Larsa, c. 1764BCE, thus ending Babylon-Isin/Larsa alliance 1762BC. Arioch of Ellasar could be Zimri-Lim, who had been ruling in Alalakh, 1796-1767BCE (a long 29yrs!) Ellasar could be an error or confusion with Assur (see also Telessar), not a reference to Larsa. Goyim [= nations] = nations of West Semites, i.e. the region around Qatna. Here, one would find expat Amurru, former Eblaites, proto-Arameans, Suteans, Hapiru mercenaries, other semi-settled (fellow) Amorites. Amut-Pi-El-II, r. 1772-1762BCE would be the fourth Amorite king, Tp-i-el -> T-i-p-el -> Tidal. Josephus is wrong to call them Assyrians. The Mari Tablet sent to Zimri-Lim famously mentions Hammurabi of Babylon, Rim-Sin of Larsa, Amut-pi-el of Qatna/Qatnum, and Alalakh-Mari's Zimri-Lim's sponsor Yarim-Lim of Yamhad/Aleppo/Halab. Sodom and Gomorrah almost certainly on the Eastern side of the Moabite Plain across from Jericho, southwest of modern Amman. South of the Dead Sea (Lut's/Lot's Sea), which must have been larger at the time, the water is and was salty, but north of the Sea it is fed by the freshwater River Jordan. Salem = Jeru-Salem minus Jeru- which seems to be an anti- prefix for Yahwist refounding of the likely evil Canaanite city (Baalist cult) Compare Jeru-ba'al as Gideon, scourge of Baal.
  • 19:8
    Second example of extreme hospitality (cf. nomadic sexual hospitality) in front of these men (now two instead of three). Koran describes them as handsome angels and names them. Angel often used as euphemism for non-Amorite or non-tribal father of an illegitimate child esp. if the child is adopted into the Amorite tribe (cf. Watchers who beget Nephilim).
  • 19:11
    Sulfur would cause blindness if thrown in the face, as well as light fires in a city, see Byzantine "Greek fire". Also 429BCE Spartan siege of Platea, 189BCE Roman siege of Ambracia, 256CE Persian siege of Dura-Europos, Kievan Sainte Olga's revenge vs Drevylans c. 945CE.
  • 21:14
    Beersheba "wilderness" now the largest city in the Negev, 30mi walk from Hebron, where Abraham soon makes covenant with Abimelech/Ab-i-Melek. Abraham later dwells in Beersheba where he sent Hagar. ...








  • MY EULOGY FOR TERRENCE

    EULOGY (PART II) FOR TERRENCE DESMOND LOUI My big brother Terry was a special person who lived an improbable life. I am here to help us calculate just how improbable his life was. Terrence was an American-born Chinese guy who was very smart, liked gadgets, and who was supposed to be a doctor. Well, nothing unusual there. In high school, there were three boys who liked the girl next door. Terrence got to take her to the military ball. Lucky guy. How lucky? One in three. Terrence was the third of five boys. Uncle Allen always liked Terry the best. Probability? One out of five. One out of three, for taking the girl next door to the ball, times one out of five, for being Uncle Allen's favorite, makes one out of fifteen. We get to multiply these together because they are jointly improbable. Terrence Desmond Loui was ambidextrous. I looked it up. 3%, or one in every 33 people, are ambidextrous. One in fifteen times one in 33 is... (anyone)? One in 495. In his senior year at Punahou, Terrence was one of three students who were in JROTC and on the math team. That's three out of about 410 in the class of '78, or one out of 137. Times one in 495, call it one out of 68,000. Of course, Terrence survived the brain tumor that doctors said would kill him. Maybe some people used the inexact phrase, "one in a million." Let's assume the doctors were good, and it was really one in a thousand. Times one in 68,000. That makes one in seventy million. One year, when we were exiting the Great America Theme Park in San Jose, California, Mom said she wanted someone to win her a stuffed animal. So Bill threw some balls or darts or something and after a few tries, won her a blue dog about two and a half feet tall. Then I tried for the white buffalo that was about three times bigger (wider). I lobbed three softballs into a milk bottle and got Buffie. Mom was so happy -- it was clearly a one in a thousand kind of prize -- this was a big buffalo. Now it was Terry's turn. Terrence spied Dino, a four-foot by four-foot by four-foot monster of a prize, easily twice the size of Buffie. He had to toss some balls into a line in a wooden tic-tac-toe box. The hard part was actually getting all the balls to settle in the squares -- maybe 10% of the balls actually landed in the puzzle and the others bounced out. Terry got the first two balls in the upper left corner and the middle boxes. The third ball bounced out. His final ball bounced into one losing box, then bounced out, went into another losing one, bounced out again, and finally settled into the lower right box, for a tic-tac-toe. A happy day indeed. I wrote a program to simulate this. One million tries, just 81 Dino's. But Terry got it. Terry's life was special. One in seventy million times 81 in a million is like ONE in EIGHT HUNDRED TRILLION. That's a big number -- 100x larger than the Chinese GDP, as we like to say. But we're not done yet. When Terry died, his watch stopped at the exact minute he passed away. Also, in his last game of solitaire, after many years of not playing, the cards opened right up for him. In Terrence's last few days, the rain blew down Manoa Valley in drifts. I told Missi that the island was angry. I didn't think much of it at the time, but it did shower heavily on the Marco Polo the moment Terry passed. So heavily that the people coming to the apartment remarked on it. And the next evening, May 25th, sheets of rain could be seen out at sea, shadowing a crimson-red moon, rising through twilight, while fireworks burst over Waikiki. I'd never seen anything like it. Earlier that week, Mom says she saw the most intense double rainbow she'd ever seen, three days in a row, culminating on the day that Terry died. And it was closer than any she could remember. Cecilia said she couldn't remember anything like that either. Just taking the number of days that Mom and I have lived so far, 20,000 for me, and 30,000 for Mom, that's one in five hundred million. With this observation, Terry's life was more improbable than our solar system, among all the billions and billions of stars in all the galaxies. And there's more. A lot of strange things happened in the weeks after Terry passed away. So far, I've been a bit playful with my mathematics. But things are going to start getting harder to understand, and I'm no longer just joking around. Terrence Loui was a man of faith who believed in a world full of mystery. He believed that goodness was an insurmountable power. He believed in his country. He believed that good conquered evil. He believed in everlasting life. He believed in the miraculous. After Terry died, I went to his room to look at his things. There was a strange gust of wind, boom-boom, knocking on the window near my head when I sat down to open his box of toy tanks. Terry hated when his younger brothers would touch his tanks. That's why he kept them in his safe. Missi and I joked that Terry was angry we were touching his things. It sprinkled when Mom went to identify Terry's body, on an otherwise sunny day, and it happened again when she went to claim his ashes. [Actually, a local microshower happened later in Sacramento on a sunny day as mom left for the airport after the burial at Masonic Lawn cemetery, full moon at midday, hotel room comped for strange reasons ...] There was a lone deer standing in my back yard when I got home to Ohio, showing me he was eating, looking right at me and unafraid, making the same face that Terry used to when he would eat. Slowly, like he was enjoying taking his time and he wasn't going to be hurried. [Actually, a couple of years later walking the dog in Springfield, Missi passed a lawn ornament, a grieving Madonna figure, with "TERRY" lettered in stone; apparently it was a shaft of light illuminating only part of the longer family name ...] In DC, one week after we lost Terrence, I was in a restaurant where I saw two kids, two brothers, two or three years apart, where the older one was helping the younger one reach the towels and soap. Just like Terrence used to help me in public bathrooms when I was too short to reach. Maybe this kind of thing happens all the time, and I just don't notice. But I've never noticed. And it happened again the next day, two brothers, same ages, same thing, in the airport. [Another time, after visiting his gravestone, needing a bathroom, at the crest of a hill I did not know whether to turn left or right; the car radio suddenly turned on and led me left where there was a public park restroom; Terrence always made a boy scout's habit of knowing where the nearest restroom could be found ...] The next week, Missi and I drove to Austin. On our way, we passed a series of RV's, recreation vehicles, branded TERRY. Right there on the interstate highway. We had been talking about taking Mom and Terry on a trip in a[n] RV. Who knew there was an RV brand named TERRY? I'd never see that before. [Actually, we were running out of gas shortly after that sighting and found a little place called Terry, MS, one of two actual towns in the US with that name; we didn't realize it until entering the city and seeing the large sign over the gas station declaring Terry for some unknown-at-the-time reason ...] In Austin, when we arrived, I awoke from a vivid nightmare. In the nightmare, someone was going through some very private papers that belonged to me and my brother. We couldn't lock them up, and we couldn't drive them away. Not sure about the symbolism, but they were in the back of a yellow Volkswagen. I called mom to tell her I just had a nightmare and was up, and she said she was at that very moment going through Terrence's most personal papers. I'm not like Terrence. I'm a man of science and skepticism, logic and probability. I don't believe as easily as he does, in the unexplained world. But get this. Exactly two hours after Terry passed at 2pm, Missi's iPad received a new puzzle called "An Act of Mourning." Several of the hints contained obvious ways of putting together Terrence's name. That's what we were all doing at 4pm, and it's why we are all here today. For an Act of Mourning. And the clues were T-E-R and R-Y, which spell TERRY. You don't have to use combinatorics to see that T-E-R and R-Y spell TERRY. And L-A-M, which is our nickname for Missi. And a dozen more clues all of which seemed to relate to him: ICE and CUP, IZ and OOF. We had just fed him ice in a cup, played the Ice Age DVD, and played Brother Iz's version of Hawaii Aloha. OOF is apparently what he liked to say to Missi. It's crazy, right? I don't know how to calculate the probability of such a strange event as this. I know Apple claims its iPad is not your average laptop, but that's really pretty special. Just like my BIG brother Terrence. I smile when I think of just how amazing his life was. He has given us the most precious gifts, with his own belief in life's higher powers: like love and generosity, his inexplicable kindness, and his loyalty -- he was loyal beyond all logic or calculation. We thank him for his strong faith, in life, his saintly courage in illness, and his unforgettable, improbable example.


    DR. SUSAN CHINN'S EULOGY FOR MOM

    My Auntie Florence was a true force of nature -- born to shake up the world and leave us in awe. She was formidable. She was unstoppable. Before the age of 8, Auntie Florence knew she was going to become a medical doctor. As we know, from junior high school onwards - Auntie Florence successfully pursued roles of leadership and academic excellence. Auntie Florence did everything well. She was brilliant, precise and exacting. I love that she could add columns of 3 digit numbers, calculate sales tax in her head. This July when we visited, she wanted to get the record straight on many things. She wanted me to understand specifics having to do with the ancestral village; that Grandma insisted on the misspelling of her own name, Leung. Leung was spelled with an 'O' instead of 'U'. And so it went, forever. Grandma refused to change. As you can see stubbornness is transferred across the generations. Without question, Auntie Florence's priority was the well-being of her 5 sons. Huge kudos to the original Tiger Mom who nurtured, supported, directed, and inspired Michael, Warren, William, Terrence, and Ronald to greatness. She loved her boys. Auntie Florence also took tremendous pride in and deeply cared for her nephews and nieces. Sometimes I think she especially favored her nieces -- taking great interest in what we were doing, offering advice and encouragement, passing down beautiful pieces of jewelry. Before it became a widely understood concept, Auntie Florence was a feminist. She believed that women were equal to the men; sometimes maybe, even better. Women deserved the same opportunities as men. In her day, Auntie Florence bumped up against gender and cultural barriers, again and again -- she was female; she was Chinese; her parents were immigrants. Grandma and Grandpa were the ultimate believers in the American Dream, giving up what was known and what was familiar, for the possibility of a better, freer life. Auntie Florence took it to another level. She dared to challenge social norms to in order to fulfill her personal callings. Being the eldest daughter of this first generation born in the U.S., Auntie Florence had great fortune-- along with her siblings, to be educated at UC Berkeley. But Auntie Florence also wanted to be a physician and the odds were stacked against her. So what does one do when the medical school admissions office tells you that you won't be accepted because you are a woman? Do you change your aspirations? No way! Did Aunt Florence feel a teensy bit intimidated being the only woman physician training alongside 40 men? Probably. But do you resign your post and give up? No!!! You make the opportunities yours, work incredibly hard and you prove yourself worthy, equal, better. Auntie Florence lived by example and she taught by example. Auntie Florence championed the causes of women's health and of domestic violence prevention more than 20 years ago. She she brought mobile breast and cervical cancer screening clinics to the rural areas of Oahu and to neighboring islands. She was appointed to Hawaii state commission and task force addressing domestic violence. During our July visit, Auntie Florence produced a copy of Hawaii State Medical Journal for which she had served as chief editor on the issue of domestic violence. So why did Auntie Florence pull herself out of bed, retrieve her from her locked file cabinets, the copy Hawaii State Medical Journal? It was to remind me of what was important to her and what should remain important to us. Auntie Florence devoted herself to fighting for what is right and just, bringing to light what was previously unmentionable. Professionally, she treated and cared for her ill patients and broadly, she extended her care to the people of Hawaii. Underlying Aunt Florence's accomplishments-- both domestic and professional - was her tough determination to make a difference. Auntie Florence faced more than her fair share of challenges throughout her life; she answered them with resolve, persistence, resilience. I urge you remember what she has taught us: fight a good; fight a brilliant fight. Fight for what you know in your heart to be right and fair. Don't shrink from the issues; address them squarely and face on. Stay current and be relevant. Also, remember high style is better than low style. Never lose your sense of humor. Finally, Auntie Florence wants us to stay a close family. As you probably realize, Auntie Florence was hugely instrumental in the family reunion this summer. We will honor our dear Aunt Florence by remembering one another, nurturing the family ties which provide us the strength, hope, and love that sustains us through the ages. Auntie Florence has returned home and is reunited with Terry, Grandpa and Grandma, her brothers Uncle Allen, Uncle Leland, Uncle Gabby, and my Pop, probably resuming the argument of who is the favorite child in the family. Auntie Florence, rest assured, we have learned your lessons well and we too will carry on.

    PROF MICHAEL'S EULOGY FOR MOM

    Eulogy Michael C. Loui October 28, 2017 Before I begin, I want to acknowledge that this eulogy represents a team effort, with contributions by my brothers Warren, Bill, and Ronald, with input from our wives Cindy, Rose, Sheree, and Missi. They are responsible for the good parts; I am responsible for any errors. My mother was born as Florence Chinn on March 29, 1927, in Sacramento, California. She was the elder of two daughters of Ned and Leong See Chinn, who also had four sons. Her family valued education and hard work. Although her father was not schooled beyond the eighth grade, all six of his children graduated from high school and went on to college. While growing up, my mother worked as the cashier in the family grocery store because she spoke English plus five Chinese dialects, and she could add three columns of digits and calculate the tax in her head. My mother attended California Junior High School in Sacramento. While there, she served as class president, vice president, secretary, and student body vice president. Simultaneously, she attended the Kui Wah Chinese Language School where she was chosen the class valedictorian. She went to C. K. McClatchy High School, where she won the Seal Bearer California Federation scholarship and graduated with highest honors. She earned an associate's degree from Sacramento Junior College. While in junior college, she was the president of Phi Theta Kappa (National Junior College Honor Society), the Jai Sei Chi Chinese student club, and the West Coast Chinese Student Intercollegiate Organization. She graduated with great distinction in 1947. My mother continued her education at the University of California, Berkeley. She attended classes in the Bay area during the week and then took the train back to Sacramento to work at her father's store on weekends. While at Berkeley, she was in the Honor Students Club, the Chinese Students Club, and the Premedical Students Club. She graduated with honors in 1949. While visiting in China in the 1930s, my mother was inspired to become a medical doctor because she saw the great need for health care. Despite top grades in college, she was told by the dean of one medical school that she would not be accepted because they had already filled their quota of one female student for the upcoming year. Determined and undeterred, my mother applied to the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and was accepted for early admission. She earned the Professor of Medicine Award for the outstanding senior medical student at Women's Med. After graduating in 1953, she did her internship year at Sacramento County Hospital. She was the only female doctor among 40 physicians in training. The program director marveled that she could recite from memory the status of all of her 20 patients in the daily morning report. He admitted that she was the best young doctor he'd seen in 30 years, even better than her brother Franklin. Then she was selected for training in the internal medicine program at the world-renowned University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. While at the University of Pennsylvania, she married in 1954. During the internal medicine residency, my mother also worked toward a master of science degree. Unfortunately, shortly after she defended her master's thesis in 1955, I was born. As a consequence, she never submitted the thesis. So I interfered with her completion of the master's degree, but maybe I could be forgiven because I was only a newborn baby at the time. Then in 1956, my brother Warren was born. In 1959, pregnant with my brother Terry, my mother moved with her family to Honolulu, Hawaii. My brother Bill was born in 1960, and my brother Ronald in 1961. After Ronald, there was clearly no point in continuing: with Ronald, she had achieved perfection. We were the five Chinese brothers. From our mother, we learned the value of education. All five of us went to college on the Mainland, and four of us earned graduate degrees. I am an engineering professor, Warren is an attorney, Bill is a physician, and Ronald is a computer scientist. My mother was one of the first Chinese female board certified internists in Hawaii. Despite working full time as a physician, she also volunteered for the Punahou School Carnival, the Hawaii Medical Society Domestic Violence Committee, and the St. Francis Medical Center. After the removal of a brain tumor, she worked for the Hawaii chapter of the American Cancer Society as the screening education coordinator for their "Butterfly Bus," which provided mobile cancer screening in rural areas and the neighbor islands. She taught 60 registered nurses and 200 volunteer lay workers to screen for breast and cervical cancers. Subsequently, my mother worked as a medical consultant for the Health and Human Services Department of the State of Hawaii. She won a national award for her program to fight fraud and abuse, which saved Hawaii's Medicaid program $2 million dollars over 6 years. My mother made several vital contributions to women's health in Hawaii. She was appointed to a state commission, coordinating council, and task force on domestic violence prevention starting in 1995. She was the chief editor of a special issue of the Hawaii Medical Journal on domestic violence in 1996. For many years, my mother was a caregiver for my brother Terry, who had survived a brain tumor in childhood. She was herself a survivor of multiple strokes and other major cardiovascular events, and had had surgery to remove a brain tumor, even during her most productive professional years. She and Terry later found great joy learning to play the ukulele and singing at friends' birthday parties. When Terry died in 2012, she endowed a scholarship in his name at Chaminade University. My mother took tremendous pride and delight in her ten grandchildren. The first eight were all boys, but finally two girls appeared. She liked to send them lee-see money that was designated for ice cream. She never tired of watching the VHS videos that Cindy and I recorded of our two sons and their Loui cousins when they were very young. Even after the Internet provided e-mail and video communication, my mother communicated by writing letters in her elegant cursive handwriting, which is becoming a lost art. Fiercely independent to the end, my mother passed away peacefully at home on September 20. We will miss her.






    ONE PRETTY GOOD LIFE:

    HONOLULU:

    BOSTON:

    ROCHESTER (NY):

    BRENTWOOD (CA): PALO ALTO: SAARBRÜCKEN/LINKÖPING:
    ROCHESTER (MN): BAHIA BLANCA: TOKYO: MELBOURNE: BONN:

    SF: BRENTWOOD (MO): LADUE/UNIV CITY: BUENOS AIRES:

    ST LOUIS:

    VEGAS: CAHOKIA: LISBOA: MORE PALO ALTO: EVANSVILLE: BRUXELLES:

    SACTO: DC: MORE HONOLULU:

    CLE CLINIC: MORE DC: AUSTIN:

    SPRINGFIELD:

    CHICAGO: SAN DIEGO: GRAND FORKS: MORE PALO ALTO:
    PEORIA: URBANA: DAYTON: ORLANDO: LA:

    AVON LAKE/BAY VILLAGE/ROCKY RIVER/LAKEWOOD:

    CLEVELAND:





    ONE PRETTY GOOD WIFE:











    PROPOSED OBIT (COVID ERA PRECAUTION)

    Ronald Prescott Loui was born the son of Florence Jew Chinn MD
    in Honolulu, Dec nn, 1961, youngest of five brothers.
    Educated at Punahou School and Harvard, he had his doctorate from Rochester
    and was a postdoc at Stanford.

    Tenured in the Engineering School at Wash U St. Louis, he left academia to work on current national problems.
    He returned to lecturing at Case Western in Cleveland in 2019.
    Professor Loui's publications were in epistemology, legal philosophy, logic, decision, risk, value, fairness, negotiation, surveillance, cyberwar, systems engineering, computer education, computer science and engineering, hardware, software, applications, and theory.

    He was a Unix superuser.

    He gave lectures on artificial intelligence in a third of US states and in Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Germany, and Canada, and at law schools in Tokyo, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Chicago, DC, Boston, NYC, Amsterdam, Maastricht, Brussels, Paris, Nice, and Pisa,
    mostly before the age of 40.

    After 9/11 he worked on a famous project for US intelligence.
    Over 40 years, his work was for the US Army/USASC, US Navy/USMC, USAF/AFRL, DARPA/IAO/DTO, NSA/SAIC, FBI, DHS, and NSF.
    He also consulted on a project with the Cleveland Clinic.

    Ronald Loui was a classic ENTP personality
    who never missed a point on a standardized math exam,
    had an IQ over 150,
    and was captain of his high school state championship math team.

    He had many interests: dance, sculpture, portrait photography, gardening, hifi audio, cars, antiquarian papers, linguistics, poetics, architecture, politics, foreign policy, demographics, personality types,
    and sports analytics.
    His recent investigations revealed an improved timeline for
    Patriarchs in the Pentateuch.

    He is survived by wife Melissa Anne Clark,
    brothers Michael PhD, Warren JDMBA, and William MD and their families.
    His mother and brother Terrence and beloved dogs predeceased him.