JohnMashey @mstdn.social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Mashey \+ Member AAAS (#science), AGU (#climate), APS (#physics); #CSLDF; #NCSE; #disinformation; \#energy, #climate, public health issues (esp tobacco): http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/170510-JohnMashey-slides.pdf
Member ACM, IEEE CS; originator of phrase "Big Data" \~1993. Recent: "Interactions, Impacts and Coincidences of the First Golden Age of Computer Architecture" http://techviser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Mashey.IEEE\.Micro\.2022.pdf
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We werre just at Battersea last month.
"been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices" is an understatment... it's a very upscale upgrade of the place, a real surprise to my British wife who lived in London in late 1970s.
https://batterseapowerstation.co.uk/
We then took a boat ride down the Thames to the Canary Wharf complex. The building lighting on South side of river made it seem more like Hong Kong or Tokyo.
https://canarywharf.com/
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Looking there led me to another nice photo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53796724938/in/photostream/
It makes a good hike, great views over the Valley.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Umunhum
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Fond memories: when wiorking vacation jobs just up the street at US Bureau of Mines Pittsburgh Mining Research Center ~1967-69, I used to take decks of punch cards to run jobs on Pitt's IBM 7090, also houses in the Cathedral.