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I'm a retired computer programmer. I like to read, travel, go to movies (only the big screen really does it for me), make music, or goof on the internet. I also contribute to
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People in Wikipedia I have met
"Met" means, at a minimum, that I either introduced myself or was introduced by name, and that I and the listed person said at least a few words to each other. Simply being in the same room is neither necessary nor sufficient.
Samuel Adler — met when he was music director at the temple I went to in Dallas
Kaveh Akbar — son's English professor
Yosef Almogi (d. 1991) — distant cousin
Marc Auslander — met professionally
John Baird — met at a wedding
Bianca Bagnarelli — my girlfriend's niece
Brian A. Barsky — friend of a friend
Patricia Bernstein — cousin
Ewan Birney — my son's graduate advisor
Grady Booch — met on a visit to
Rational Software
John Browning (d. 2003) — met backstage
Bill Buxton — friend of a friend
Loren Carpenter — met at
SIGGRAPH
Lee Child — in same drama club at university
Ramsey Clark (d. 2021) — friend of the family
Harold F. Clayton (d. 2015) — met over the phone
Ted Codd (d. 2003) — met at a conference
Kenneth H. Cooper — met at the Cooper Aerobics Center
John Cornyn — voted in the precinct where I was an election judge
Mike Cowlishaw — met professionally
Nikki Craft — met at KCHU in Dallas
Elijah Cummings (d. 2019) — met in the garage behind his Baltimore office
Hugh Darwen — met professionally
Christopher J. Date — met professionally
Robert H. Dedman Sr. (d. 2002) — father's law partner
August Derleth (d. 1971) — met over the phone while ordering a book
Lloyd Doggett — met at a political event
Nick Donofrio — met professionally
Michael Douglas — met at a press conference
Taissa Farmiga — met at a screening of
Jamesy Boy
Jane Fonda — met at a press conference
Alain Fournier (d. 2000) — close friend
Henry Fuchs — met while at UT Dallas
Bamber Gascoigne (d. 2022) — met while on
University Challenge
Jack Gilford (d. 1990) — met at the
Tadich Grill in San Francisco
Stephen Hawking (d. 2018) — met at an astrophysics convention
Banesh Hoffmann (d. 1986) — met at an astrophysics convention
John H. Hoffman (d. 2021) — met while at UT Dallas
Robert Hoffman (d. 2006) — same school
William Hootkins (d. 2005) — same school, same drama group
Lane P. Hughston — high school friend
Donald Johanos (d. 2007) — was friends with his daughter
Tommy Lee Jones — same school, same drama group
Bryce Jordan (d. 2016) — met while at UT Dallas
Tom Kite — met at a birthday party for his son
Polykarp Kusch (d. 1993) — chairman of my doctoral committee
John Lehmann (d. 1987) — took a course from him at UT
Jack Lemmon (d. 2001) — met at a press conference
Alan I. Leshner — sat next to him on an airplane
Joyce Currie Little (d. 2023) — neighbor
Valerie Mahaffey — in my English class at UT
Benoit Mandelbrot (d. 2010) — had dinner with him when he spoke at my school
Stuart Margolin (d. 2022) — my aunt's nephew
Lorenzo Milam (d. 2020) — met while working at the long-defunct KCHU in Dallas
Turk Murphy (d. 1987) — met after a performance
Edwin Neal — same drama group, later member of same synagogue
Tameka Norris — son's art professor
Douglas Northcott (d. 2005) — undergraduate professor
Levi Olan (d. 1984) — rabbi at our congregation
Dean Ornish — same high school, same poker group
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (d. 1995) — met in Dallas
Rick Perry — sat next to him on a plane
Penn & Teller — volunteer from the audience in The Refrigerator Tour
J. J. Pickle (d. 2005) — met at a political event
David Pines (d. 2018) — related to first wife, also present at my first conference talk
George Pólya (d. 1985) — met at a guest lecture at the University of Sheffield
Regina Resnik (d. 2013) — met backstage
Bill Reeves — met at a conference
Patricia Richardson — same drama group
Wolfgang Rindler (d. 2019) — on my doctoral committee
Ivor Robinson (d. 2016) — my graduate advisor
Robert Xavier Rodriguez — met at UT Dallas
Barefoot Sanders (d. 2008) — introduced by his daughter, a school friend
Allan Shivers (d. 1985) — met at UT Board of Regents meeting
Lewis Shiner — same school, same drama group
John Silber (d. 2012) — met while at UT
Preston Smith (d. 2003) — met at a press conference
Stephen Spender (d. 1995) — interviewed for The Daily Texan
Roger Staubach — met in the locker room of the Cooper Aerobics Center
Annette Strauss (d. 1998) — served with her on a committee
Bjarne Stroustrup — met at a conference
Jeffrey Swann — same school
Edward Teller (d. 2003) — met when he spoke at our school
Stephen Tobolowsky — met at high school debate tournaments
Andrzej Trautman — met at a conference
Alex Trebek (d. 2020) — met while on
Jeopardy!
Jack Valenti (d. 2007) — interviewed for
The Daily Texan
Dee Dee Warwick (d. 2008) — met on a tour bus in the Bahamas
John Wayne (d. 1979) — had lunch with him at a press conference
Trevor White — my son's friend
George Whitman (d. 2011) — hung out in his bookstore in Paris in the early seventies
Angus G. Wynne (d. 1979) — father's law partner
Sheldon Zimmerman — rabbi at our congregation
I've also run into
Chinua Achebe ,
Dan Rather (twice!),
Ann Richards ,
Johnny Mathis and
Jason Alexander , but was not introduced. I also feel like I once met
Michael Stonebraker , but I can't remember the circumstances.
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