oh I didn't know that Pamela passed away too. My condolences. She was certainly
one of the more famous list members. I have asked ChatGPT to describe each of
the list members, and it was impressed by Pamela and her books about AI. Her
last book from 2019 was named "This could be important: My Life and Times with
the Artificial
Intelligentsia"https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/book/This_Could_Be_Important_My_Life_and_Times_with_the_Artificial_Intelligentsia/31079929-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Steve Smith <[email protected]> Date:
8/22/26 6:19 PM (GMT+01:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Most
active FRIAM members > The most frequent posters on FRIAM in descending order
(according to > the archive at https://mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ).
Steve, > Marcus and Nick are the top 3. Carl Tollander and Douglas Roberts are
> no longer with us :-( I would have liked to hear Carl playing drums or >
Douglas playing the saxophone.>Jochen/PhellowPhriamers -I was a little
surprised (chagrined) to realize I'd topped the list by frequency of post ( and
very likely by volume of text). I'd be interested in a ranking of
consequentiality which of course is in the eye of the beholder. I could give
my own ranking of how consequential many of your offerings have been here for
me over the years, but naturally it is a multi-dimensional field of
"optimality". The broad spectrum of backgrounds and modes of thoughts present
here have been valuable to me over this last 20+ years.I believe we once had a
broader international representation, and I recognize that a few are simply
very low frequency posters. Sarbajit (india) and (probably unsubscribed now
Mohammed al Begatey (Egypt/Sweden), Schlitz (Ecuador)...We are very male-heavy
here and I'd like to nod to.Merle for sticking in here with us. Jenny Q still
monitors and occasionally pops in and I'm pretty sure Dede Densmore withdrew
entirely a long while ago.. Pamela was a strong voice before her passing in
2021... we may well have a few "lurkers" as well. I've lost at least one name
I know to fit this category.We are also pretty age/education/vocation sqewed
toward "elder academic". I don't know who our youngest members are, Gil and
Cody maybe? Possibly Jon? I think Roger Frye might be our eldest with a
solid handful not far behind?There is strong representation from the Computer
Science/Engineering/Systems world but I really appreciate the complementary
voices from the so-called "English Majors". Jenny and Merle and Tom are the
most obvious to me in this category...There are also a few other names of those
who have passed (Pamela, Vladimyr, Lissaman) and notably our resident
?founding? member who brought ethnography into our midst (name-brain-fade).The
Santa Fe Complex (sfX) contingent overlaps strongly and I sometimes lose track
of the distinction. And of course there are many other overlaps and
partitionings... BiosGroup escapees, SFI affiliations, Redfish/SimTable.We
also have the local in-person coffee group who are not consistently vocal here
(notably Ed Angel).Carry On!> 1. Steve Smith> 2. Marcus Daniels> 3. Nicholas
(Nick) Thompson> 4. Owen Densmore> 5. David (Dave) West> 6. Frank Wimberly> 7.
Glen Ropella> 8. Tom Johnson> 9. Jochen Fromm (DE)> 10. Eric Charles> 11. Roger
Critchlow> 12. Douglas Roberts> 13. Jon Zingale> 14. Gillian Densmore> 15.
Stephen Guerin> 16. Pieter Steenekamp (ZA)> 17. Merle Lefkoff> 18. Russel
Standish (AU)> 19. Phil Henshaw> 20. Robert Holmes> 21. Barry MacKichan> 22.
Russ Abbott> 23. Carl Tollander> 24. Pamela McCorduck> 25. Eric Smith> 26. Gary
Schiltz> 27. John Kennison> 28. Bruce Sherwood> 29. Sarbajit Roy (IN)> 30.
Roger Frye> 31. Pietro Terna (IT)> 32. Doug Carmichael>> -J.>> .- .-.. .-.. /
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