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[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/wired.html

I love the bio which I quote:

"Frank J. Tipler is Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University. 
He is the co-author of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford 
University Press, 1986), about the significance of intelligent life in the 
universe, and the author of The Physics of Immortality (Doubleday, 1994) 
about the ultimate limits of computers, and the role computers will play in 
the universe. Professor Tipler was the post-doc of a post-doc of John von 
Neumann, the mathematician who made the first American digital computer. 
Tipler was also the post-doc of a post-doc of a post-doc of Albert 
Einstein. Finally, Tipler was the post-doc of John Wheeler, the man who 
named the black hole, and Wheeler was in turn the post-doc of Niels Bohr, 
one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Not surprisingly, Tipler's 
research is on discovering the mutual implications of computer theory, 
relativity, and quantum mechanics." djf

submitted by From: "Jonathan M. Smith" <jms () central cis upenn edu>




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