Over the years I have made quite a few posts to internet news groups. Many of these posts are collected below. In most cases I have not tried to filter out posts of no lasting interest. I did try to remove duplicates.

If you are interested in the context of some of these posts I would suggest looking them up in Google Groups .

Naturally the views in these posts are mine not IBM's.

• comp.arch
  • 1991 (133k) (IEEE arithmetic)
  • 1994 (3k) (Architectural bloat)
  • 1997 (95k) (Interval arithmetic)
  • 2000 (65k) (Ada and Ariane 5 failure, vector intrinsic functions)
• sci.environment
  • 1993 (28k) (Global warming)
  • 1994 (224k) (Extinction events, Quebec hydro, CO2, global warming, risk, scientific culture, discounting)
  • 1995 (286k) (Scientific culture, computer modeling, wind energy, global warming, climate modeling)
  • 1996 (364k) (Greens and nuclear power, climate models, global warming, economics, cost benefit analysis)
  • 1997 (120k) (Climate models, cost benefit analysis, finite value of human existence)
  • 1998 (288k) (Finite value of human existence, selfishness, mercury hazard, journalism, climate modeling)
  • 1999 (86k) (Species area relation, xenophobia)
  • 2000 (379k) (SDI computers, jet engine power, feedback, voting systems, health insurance, climate models)
• sci.physics.fusion
  • 1993 (92k) (Feynman and the space shuttle, energy R&D, economics of hot fusion)

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