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From: eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
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Subject: Re: Supercomputer conferences
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Date: 26 Jun 91 17:19:25 GMT
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Oh, one possible outcome of this meeting....
I was talking with Bence Gerber of CRI, Ron Levine, and others.
Richard Friedman are you reading this?

We are thinking of holding a ten year reunion (next year) of our
failed attempt to start ACM/SIGBIG (in the local Bay Area).
It will be ten years ago that Mary Fowler, George Michael, Marcie Smith,
and I tried.  We can hold a wake for Sid.  We should also invite
Ken Muira, Ron Z.* [the last name in the IBM Santa Teresa phone as
he called himself.]  We could also invite some of the local speakers
we had at the time on various platforms and applications (John George
and Nelson Bye from Convex are still around).

Mary unfortunately did not get enough support from management
and is now at PG&E Nuclear.  I resigned because I felt I appeared a
political detriment for a few who didn't think WWII ended,
but I ran the SIGGRAPH local group for a successful term (and we
did cover supercomputing).

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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