Today's SJ Mercury (The Newspaper of Silicon Valley!) has an article in 
the business section about HP forming a technical advisory board to 
help them not miss the next big thing in computational profitability. 
Alan is shown in the group photo with the other luminaries of said 
board. Maybe we can look forward to HP abandoning the Excess of Evil 
and following the path of light :-) Go get'em Alan!

tim
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tim at sumeru.stanford.edu