All the old men (and women) are dying!
Is it a sign or is it a portent of things to come that Leonard Cohen and
Fidel Castro both checked out soon with the election!?
Thanks Roger for letting us know about Weininger and Fienberg... I
hadn't heard.
On 12/14/16 7:45 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote
Yes, having left Carnegie Mellon in 1998 I occasionally inquire about
former colleagues only to learn that they are deceased. Fienberg's office
was down the hall from mine but I didn't know him well. On the other hand
I can count about 10 whom I did know well. Most were younger than I.
Did you a
You're right, Roger. We must pay more attention to the dearest live ones.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> Ah, the mortality is getting thick. My high school buddy Aaron had a
> fatal massive heart attack in August. My sister-in-law Mimi succumbed to
> cancer on Octob
Ah, the mortality is getting thick. My high school buddy Aaron had a fatal
massive heart attack in August. My sister-in-law Mimi succumbed to cancer
on October 30 while I was flying back from visiting her and my brother.
Dave Weininger, master of chemical information, passed away on November 2.
C
Thanks so much for the memory--one of my first aha! moments as I discovered
Complexity science was watching Schelling's segregation ABM.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> A message from Yaneer:
>
>
> In Memoriam: Thomas C. Schelling
> December 13, 2016
>
> Tom Schelling, m
A message from Yaneer:
In Memoriam: Thomas C. Schelling
December 13, 2016
Tom Schelling, master of the important idea in a complex world, passed
away, Tuesday, December 13, 2016. His work on mutual assured destruction
and on segregation showed he knew what the most important questions were
and h
