Monday, October 21, 2013

On This Day in Math

MANY HAVE ARGUED THAT A VACUUM DOES NOT EXIST, OTHERS CLAIM IT EXISTS ONLY WITH DIFFICULTY IN SPITE OF THE REPUGNANCE OF NATURE; I KNOW OF NO ONE WHO CLAIMS IT EASILY EXISTS WITHOUT ANY RESISTANCE FROM NATURE.

-- Evangelista Torricelli in a Letter to Michelangelo Ricci


Thursday, October 10, 2013

The Phone Call of a Lifetime

BEGINNING MY CAREER



I started my professional career in May, 1988, at a newly formed environmental engineering firm of less than 10 people in Knoxville, TN. I had just finished my Master's degree in Geology but I had already been programming computers since 1977.