[sdiy] Walter J. Karplus

[cheater cheater]

Huh, that's funny, how did that work?

On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 7:25 AM Paul Perry <pfperry at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
>
> 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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