It was interesting to watch myself fish for the names WarpIV and Jeff Steinman when I replied to Doug's message.
I knew that Doug's description reminded me of a system I had known about. But I couldn't retrieve either WarpIV or Jeff Steinman from my own memory even though I knew it was that system that I wanted to mention to Doug. How to find those names. I knew that Jeff's company was in San Diego. I also knew that he had previously worked at JPL. So I did a search for JPL, Simulation, and San Diego. Among the items returned, the term "time warp" showed up. I recognized that as part of Jeff's approach. So I added that to the search. That search returned an item with the name WarpIV. I recognized that and tracked down Jeff and his company. What was interesting was that I knew what I wanted, I didn't know its name, but I was able to recognize relevant terms when Google thrust them in front of me. That and some persistence was what it took. -- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Cell phone: 310-621-3805 o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/
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