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Goal: Axiom Maintenance The fundamental purpose of scientific discourse is not the mere presentation of information and thought, but rather its actual communication. -- George Gopen and Judith Swan Literate programming ... because yourself from the past does not answer emails. -- Tim Daly ...design of systems of computer algebra not getting the recognition they deserve in terms of the object-oriented community. I should say that the models that Scratchpad and later Axiom had abouy abstraction are, in my view, superior to all the models that have appeared of object-orientation. -- Gaston Gonnet [Gonn05] I think that that's the big contribution of computer algebra -- making the knowledge of lots of mathematicins that worked for a long time but have put all their results in journals that are very difficult to extract and to find, putting it at the fingertips of everybody. I think that that's one of the most important contributions. -- Gaston Gonnet [Gonn05]
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\index{Gonnet, Gaston} | ||
\index{Haigh, Thomas} | ||
\begin{chunk}{axiom.bib} | ||
@misc{Gonn05, | ||
author = "Gonnet, Gaston and Haigh, Thomas", | ||
title = "An Interview with Gaston Gonnet", | ||
year = "2005", | ||
publisher = "SIAM", | ||
url = "http://history.siam.org/pdfs2/Gonnet_final.pdf", | ||
abstract = | ||
"Born in Uruguay, Gonnet was first exposed to computers while working | ||
for IBM in Montevideo as a young man. This led him to a position at | ||
the university computer center, and in turn to an undergraduate degree | ||
in computer science in 1973. In 1974, following a military coup, he | ||
left for graduate studies in computer science at the University of | ||
Waterloo. Gonnet earned an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in just two and a half | ||
years, writing a thesis on the analysis of search algorithms under the | ||
supervision of Alan George. After one year teaching in Rio de Janeiro | ||
he returned to Waterloo, as a faculty member. | ||
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In 1980, Gonnet began work with a group including Morven Gentleman and | ||
Keith Geddes to produce an efficient interactive computer algebra | ||
system able to work well on smaller computers: Maple. Gonnet discusses | ||
in great detail the goals and organization of the Maple project, its | ||
technical characteristics, the Maple language and kernel, the Maple | ||
library, sources of funding, the contributions of the various team | ||
members, and the evolution of the system over time. He compares the | ||
resulting system to MACSYMA, Mathematica, Reduce, Scratchpad and other | ||
systems. Gonnet also examines the licensing and distribution of Maple | ||
and the project’s relations to its users. Maple was initially used for | ||
teaching purposes within the university, but soon found users in other | ||
institutions. From 1984, distribution was handled by Watcom, a company | ||
associated with the university, and 1988, Gonnet and Geddes created a | ||
new company, Waterloo Maple Software, Inc. to further commercialize | ||
Maple, which established itself as the leading commercial computer | ||
algebra system. However, during the mid-1990s the company ran into | ||
trouble and disagreements with his colleagues caused Gonnet to | ||
withdraw from managerial involvement. Since then, he feels that Maple | ||
has lost its battle with Mathematica. Gonnet also discusses Maple’s | ||
relation to Matlab and its creator, Cleve Moler. | ||
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From 1984 onward with Frank Tompa, Tim Bray, and other Waterloo | ||
colleagues, Gonnet worked on the production of computer software to | ||
support the creation of the second edition of the Oxford English | ||
Dictionary. This led to the creation of another startup company, Open | ||
Text, producing software for the searching and indexing of textual | ||
information within large corporations. Gonnet explains his role in the | ||
firm, including his departure and his feeling that it made a strategic | ||
blunder by not exploiting its early lead in Internet search. | ||
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Gonnet continued to work in a number of areas of computer science, | ||
including analysis of algorithms. In 1990, Gonnet moved from Waterloo | ||
to ETH in Switzerland. Among his projects since then have been Darwin, | ||
a bioinformatics system for the manipulation of genetic data, and | ||
leadership of the OpenMath project to produce a standard | ||
representation for mathematical objects. He has been involved in | ||
several further startup companies, including Aruna, a relational | ||
database company focused on business intelligence applications.", | ||
keywords = "axiomref", | ||
paper = "Gonn05.pdf" | ||
} | ||
The fundamental purpose of scientific discourse is not the mere presentation | ||
of information and thought, but rather its actual communication. | ||
-- George Gopen and Judith Swan | ||
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\end{chunk} | ||
Literate programming ... because yourself from the past does not answer emails. | ||
-- Tim Daly | ||
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...design of systems of computer algebra not getting the recognition | ||
they deserve in terms of the object-oriented community. I should say | ||
that the models that Scratchpad and later Axiom had abouy abstraction | ||
are, in my view, superior to all the models that have appeared of | ||
object-orientation. | ||
-- Gaston Gonnet [Gonn05] | ||
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I think that that's the big contribution of computer algebra -- | ||
making the knowledge of lots of mathematicins that worked for a | ||
long time but have put all their results in journals that are | ||
very difficult to extract and to find, putting it at the fingertips | ||
of everybody. I think that that's one of the most important contributions. | ||
-- Gaston Gonnet [Gonn05] | ||
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