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Charles Petrie
Senior Research Scientist (Retired)
Stanford Computer Science Department Logic Group
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Research
Retired Sr.Research Scientist at
in the Stanford Logic Group in
the Computer Science
Department.
For detail, see the
Professional Biography and the initiatives below.
Initiatives
Ten Years Off-Grid: Don't Try This At Home,
How to, and how not to, build an off-grid photovoltaic system for your
home.
Web Service Composition, based on
Lectures on Web Service Composition taught at KIT, 20112.
Automated Configuration Problem Solving
Keynote:
Strategic IT-Management, Sofitel Munich Bayerpost,
München, 23-25 January 2012.
"
Future of the Internet: Coordinating Collective
Work";
paper in Chinese, translation courtesy of Elisa Liang,
IEEE
Internet Computing, especially the
"Peering" column.
"Emergent
Collectives for Work and Play"
Personal Interests
Mottos
We are God's eyes and he wants us to see clearly.*
It's not reality's job to conform to your expectations.*
Show me your rules and I will play by them. But you won't like it.*
You're not beat until you quit, or die.
Were it easy, everyone would do it.
In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is burned as a witch.**
Popular destinations become plastic replicas of themselves.*
Those who would take away my freedoms, destroy my land, and enslave
my children are my enemies.*
If the shoe fits...
The world doesn't care what storms you encountered: did you
bring the ship in?
Never let them see you sweat.
Attacking Chaos is a Virtue* (264K)
A man's character is revealed not so much by his mistakes but by how he handles them.
All AI projects should have a rock solid foundation.* (93K)
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Home is where you go to show the pictures of where you've been.
On the Internet, no one knows you are a Lisp program.**
The best computer I've ever used was a Symbolics.*
The purpose of civilization is to insulate us from reality.*
One is less inclined to regard most people as stupid if one realizes that our idea of man as a superior animal is only aspirational.*
"The world only needs three computers"
*Original with me.
**Modifications of well-known sayings.
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