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From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: visualization (sic)
Message-ID: <7570@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Nov 90 08:31:06 GMT
References: <1470@vtsai2.sai.vtt.fi> <1990Nov7.193654.7665@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <7568@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <7568@eos.arc.nasa.gov> I wrote:
>The purpose of visualization (sic) is insight.

Richard W. Hamming deserves to be mentioned as person who made the
observation:
	The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
which my comment was derived.  Hamming, still alive, is at the
US Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, formerly at Los Alamos
and Bell Labs where is is best known for his work on coding theory,
may not be as well known to younger computists and those
scientists unfamiliar with his work.  He truly keeps insight.
If we learn anything, it is to remember Hamming.

--e.n. miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov
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