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Gurus??? - John W Kercheval - 05-13-2014 05:19 PM
Name your top 5 HPCalc Gurus & why....
RE: Gurus??? - Maximilian Hohmann - 05-13-2014 05:46 PM
(05-13-2014 05:19 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote: Name your top 5 HPCalc Gurus & why....
I know only two: Hewlett and Packard. Why? Who knows...
RE: Gurus??? - Jeff_Kearns - 05-13-2014 08:55 PM
(05-13-2014 05:19 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote: Name your top 5 HPCalc Gurus & why....
Hey John - are you vying for senior member status now? ;-)
There are many gurus on this forum (and in the old forum archives). I hesitate to name only 5 as that would be unfair. To name a few off the top of my head:
> Katie W.
> Valentin A.
> Karl Schneider
> Gene W.
> Walter B.
> Thomas Klemm
> Paul Dale
> Angel Martin
> Gerson B.
> Dave Britten
> Namir
> Geoff Q.
> and a hundred others (whom I sincerely would not wish to offend by omitting their names)...
Just take a look at the articles (new and old) section - lots of gurus there.
Jeff K
RE: Gurus??? - waterlander2004 - 05-18-2014 02:03 PM
No list in this context would be complete without including Tony Duell, for reverse-engineering and documenting any piece of vintage HP (and other) equipment he gets in his hands… and for generously sharing his knowledge.
Regards, Eric
RE: Gurus??? - Ángel Martin - 05-19-2014 06:11 AM
Any list like that is necessarily both incomplete and probably includes errors (like adding me as a guru is a vast exaggeration, but thanks for the gesture :-)
Here's a few more names at the top of my head that deserve inclusion:
Eric Smith
Thomas Okken
Diego Díaz
J-F Garnier
Monte Dalrymple
....
RE: Gurus??? - Tony Duell - 05-19-2014 07:39 AM
(05-18-2014 02:03 PM)waterlander2004 Wrote: No list in this context would be complete without including Tony Duell, for reverse-engineering and documenting any piece of vintage HP (and other) equipment he gets in his hands… and for generously sharing his knowledge.
Regards, Eric
I think that's going far too far. I am certainly no guru....
RE: Gurus??? - jebem - 05-19-2014 12:44 PM
And let's not forget to mention advanced math contributors in this MoHP forums.
(not a concise list, of course, these are just the latest contributors on threads where I was involved as well):
- Dieter;
- Joe Horn;
- Manolo Sobrino;
RE: Gurus??? - Sylvain Cote - 05-20-2014 01:51 AM
(05-13-2014 05:19 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote: Name your top 5 HPCalc Gurus & why....
My top five gurus are selected from the HP-41/IL world ...
Code:
Angel Martin Master of the NUT, creator of so many ROM's and the one who always pushes the boundaries of the 41 farther away
Diego Díaz Creator of the Clonix & NoV modules that allow us to use the marvels from Angel.
Monte Dalrymple Creator of the ultimate HP-41, the 41CL who moved the 41 into another dimension.
Jean-Francois Garnier Master of the Loop and the one who connected the old generation (IL) to the new one (USB) with it's PIL-Box.
Christoph Gießelink Mr. Simulator, who took the IL simulator work of JFG for MS-DOS, moved it to Windows, refined it and expanded it beyond dreams.Sylvain
RE: Gurus??? - Vagn Anderssen - 05-23-2014 04:03 PM
Angel Martin is a character on "The Rockford Files"
RE: Gurus??? - Ángel Martin - 05-24-2014 07:26 AM
(05-23-2014 04:03 PM)Vagn Anderssen Wrote: Angel Martin is a character on "The Rockford Files"
interestingly it's not the same one ;-)
RE: Gurus??? - Tugdual - 05-24-2014 07:47 AM
I'me quite impressed by the CORDIC algorithm and you can read on Wikipedia
Quote:Although CORDIC is similar to mathematical techniques published by Henry Briggs as early as 1624, it is optimized for low complexity finite state CPUs.So JS Walther would be my Guru.
John Stephen Walther at Hewlett-Packard further generalized the algorithm, allowing it to calculate hyperbolic and exponential functions, logarithms, multiplications, divisions, and square roots.[2]
RE: Gurus??? - Katie Wasserman - 05-24-2014 04:25 PM
(05-24-2014 07:26 AM)Ángel Martin Wrote:(05-23-2014 04:03 PM)Vagn Anderssen Wrote: Angel Martin is a character on "The Rockford Files"
interestingly it's not the same one ;-)
Yes but you're both
(05-20-2014 01:51 AM)Sylvain Cote Wrote: Master of the NUT
In two entirely different meanings of the word!
RE: Gurus? - Raymond Del Tondo - 05-24-2014 04:42 PM
(05-13-2014 05:19 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote: Name your top 5 HPCalc GurusBill Wickes, Charlie Patton and the whole HP 48 development team.
And of course the HP-41 development team;-)
That's more than 5, and there are more, but they are those who created the whole stuff.
(05-13-2014 05:19 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote: & why....All Saturn-based machines.
And the other team: All nut based machines.
RE: Gurus??? - Namir - 05-25-2014 12:57 PM
Two gurus that were not mentioned so far.
The first is Jim DeArras who is a true genius. He tapped into the memory of the HP-41C and created a quad memory that did not need bank-switching (as HP had done in its labs in Corvallis). He did with a simple oscilloscope!! Jim had an insightful knowledge for the HP-41C calculator.
The other guru is none other than Richard Nelson, who is a genius in bringing the community of users into the PPC, then CHHU, and now the annual HHC conferences. If you think organizing these kinds of conferences is easy, give it a try. Richard maintains a special charisma that brings HP calculator enthusiasts together. Richard was also behind the PPC-ROM project and had put a major labor of love in assembling the fantastic and detailed manual for that ROM!
Namir
RE: Gurus??? - Antoine M. Couette - 05-25-2014 04:50 PM
HrastProgrammer for his outstanding and astounding HP41CX emulators working on HP48GX, HP49G and HP50G and Jean-François Garnier with EMU41 (see : http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv016.cgi?read=91719)
Kermit
Antoine M. "Kermit" Couëtte
RE: Gurus??? - d b - 01-10-2015 08:55 PM
Don't forget W. Mier Jedrezejowicz, Marcus Von Cube, Kieth Jarett and Jean-Daniel Dodin.
RE: Gurus??? - RMollov - 01-12-2015 02:20 AM
(05-13-2014 05:19 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote: Name your top 5 HPCalc Gurus & why....I'd put Werner before all mentioned already.
RE: Gurus??? - Han - 01-12-2015 02:28 AM
I started during the HP48 era, so Mika Heiskanen, Mozgy, and Jan Brittenson would be on my list.
RE: Gurus??? - Namir - 01-12-2015 04:13 AM
(05-13-2014 08:55 PM)Jeff_Kearns Wrote:(05-13-2014 05:19 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote: Name your top 5 HPCalc Gurus & why....
Hey John - are you vying for senior member status now? ;-)
There are many gurus on this forum (and in the old forum archives). I hesitate to name only 5 as that would be unfair. To name a few off the top of my head:
> Katie W.
> Valentin A.
> Karl Schneider
> Gene W.
> Walter B.
> Thomas Klemm
> Paul Dale
> Angel Martin
> Gerson B.
> Dave Britten
> Namir
> Geoff Q.
> and a hundred others (whom I sincerely would not wish to offend by omitting their names)...
Just take a look at the articles (new and old) section - lots of gurus there.
Jeff K
I am humbled to be in the list. I enjoy calculators, math, and statistics a lot. I spend each day dabbling in these subjects. The folks who visit this forum and attend the HHC conference are very smart people. I enjoy sharing some of the math discoveries here and also at the HHC conference (Thank you Eric for videotaping the HHC talks and posting them on YouTube).
Namir
RE: Gurus??? - brouhaha - 01-12-2015 10:47 AM
(05-19-2014 07:39 AM)Tony Duell Wrote: I think that's going far too far. I am certainly no guru....
Like it or not, you've got a pretty good claim to be a guru about a lot of stuff, and many of us are very appreciative of that.
Quote:Only the true messiah denies his divinity.
- Life of Brian, Monty Python
Eric
(a different one)