[sdiy] Walter J. Karplus

[Paul Perry]

https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Walter_Karplus
Nice to see him say that he never lost his love of analog ;D

Interesting that some of his work was building analog computer sections to
run subroutines
in early digital computers. Today, it's probably easier to make a digital
module to fit inside an analog structure!

pau lperry Melbourne Austraia

On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 11:55 PM cheater cheater via Synth-diy <
synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:

> I just stumbled upon this NASA document about computers for simulation
> by a Walter J. Karplus and I was wondering if he was related to Kevin
> Karplus, the co-inventor of Karplus-Strong synthesis. Walter's son was
> named Toni, so probably not a direct ancestor. WJK was born in Vienna
> and left Austria with his parents and family running from the Nazis.
>
> https://archive.org/details/nasa-reports_nas-1262885/page/n1/mode/2up
>
> Apparently in 1962 Walter J. Karplus co-authored a book with Rajko
> Tomović about high speed analog computers:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajko_Tomovi%C4%87
>
> Here's a bio:
> https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/WalterJ.Karplus.htm
>
> Here's a list of his works:
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Walter-J-Karplus-35630691
>
> Includes work on analog computers, hybrid computing (this means analog
> + digital), and on the Connection Machine that Feynman also worked on.
>
> Hybrid computing:
> https://archive.org/details/hybridcomputatio0000beke/page/n7/mode/2up
>
> Feynman and the CM:
> https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/
>
> I haven't been able to find High Speed Analog Computers for viewing online.
>
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