# Charles J. Petrie's WWW Home Page, 'personal portal established 1993' (archived copy) This is his home page, a links portal in the style of 1993 with the blue background it has kept ever since (copyright line 1993-2024). The Portal '93 theme on this fan site is that blue. Source: http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/. Captured 2026-09-14. This personal portal established 1993 [ clocklink.com world-clock widget (Chicago, London, Paris), not archived: it was a third-party iframe ] | [US Naval Observatory CLOCK](http://nist.time.gov/) Please: send me no MS (or Mac) proprietary formats or encodings. # Charles Petrie Senior Research Scientist (Retired) Stanford Computer Science Department Logic Group [Picture](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/euro-2004/Berge0704/originals/IMG_0018.JPG)    [ Contact Information ](https://charlespetrie.com#archive-notes)   Born in 1948     [Current TRAVEL](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/travel/current.html) ## Petrie's Pages (Contents by Topic) ![igHome] [[Utilities](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/Utilities.html)] [[References](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/References.html)] [[Regional Information](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/regional.html)] [[Weather](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/weather.html)] [[Weird Views Blog](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/weirdviews)] [[Travel](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/travel/)] [[Web News](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/WebInfo.html)] [[Personal Touring Pictures](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/pictures.html)][[Craig's List - SFBA](http://sfbay.craigslist.org/)] General WWW Sites: [Print Media Online ] [[Specialized Search](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/search.html)] [Social Networks] [[CyberFun](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/Cool.html)] Entertainment: [Eclectic] [Comics] [[Movies](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/Eclectic.html#movies)] [[Art](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/Art.html)] [[Music](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/Music.html)] Self: [[Initiatives](https://charlespetrie.com#Initiatives)] [ [Professional Biography]](https://charlespetrie.com/classic/) [[Research](https://charlespetrie.com#Research)] [[Personal Interests](https://charlespetrie.com#Personal)] [[Mottos](https://charlespetrie.com#Mottos)] ## Research ![Robot Image] Retired Sr.Research Scientist at in the Stanford Logic Group in the [Computer Science Department](http://cs.stanford.edu/). For detail, see the [ Professional Biography](https://charlespetrie.com/classic/) and the initiatives below. ## Initiatives [ Ten Years Off-Grid: Don't Try This At Home](https://tinyurl.com/ybxzreus), How to, and how not to, build an off-grid photovoltaic system for your home. [ Web Service Composition](http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319328317), 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](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/online/), especially the "Peering" column. "Emergent Collectives for Work and Play" ## Personal Interests [ ![Germany] ](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/germany.html) ![Big Boy] [ ![Martial Arts] ](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/zentai/martial.html) [ ![BMW Motorcycle] ](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/bmw/) [ ![Sierra Club] ](http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/) [ ![The Nature Conservancy] ](http://www.tnc.org/) - [ Lauryn ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289874/) - [ Jeremy ](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/jeremy.html) ## 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. A country isn't a rock.* [ Attacking Chaos is a Virtue*](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/images/basilisk.gif) (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](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/images/rock.gif) 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.**](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/ProcessLink/Redux/toshiba/scenario.html) [ The best computer I've ever used was a Symbolics.*](https://web.archive.org/web/2013/http://www.asl.dsl.pipex.com/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"](http://computer.org/50/looking/r20006.htm) *Original with me. **Modifications of well-known sayings. EasyChair [ swschallenge](http://www.sws-challenge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin) / NingLogic / logic / ICManCen / ICedboardgoogle/ Service-mail / Burning Man / SWSCBook   / AutoUni  / ME310  / obsolete  ## About this archived copy This is his home page, a links portal in the style of 1993 with the blue background it has kept ever since (copyright line 1993-2024). The Portal '93 theme on this fan site is that blue. Source: [http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/), fetched raw over HTTP on 2026-09-14 and reproduced tag for tag (the original is HTML 2.0 era markup; only the character set and image paths were changed, and the colors were moved to a stylesheet). - 60 links were live when checked on 2026-09-14 and open the original address. - 6 links were dead (1990s and 2000s conference sites, mostly) and now open the [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/) at the original address, marked [archived]. - 2 links to his own picture and sibling pages open the copies hosted here. - His contact-information file (.plan) is not reproduced because it contains personal details. Other exhibits: [the professional bio](https://charlespetrie.com/classic/) · [the MCC Proteus page](https://charlespetrie.com/classic/proteus/). 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