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Ed Wegman, Yasmin Said and Milton Johns Sue Me for $2 Million but at This Stage a Motion to Dismiss Cannot Argue Matters of Fact, Just Legal Reasons
Wegman, Said and Johns Sue Me For $2 Million Executive Summary MAS2015i 05/19/15 John R. Mashey1 The suits were badly written in many ways, rife with falsehoods and errors, Ed Wegman, Yasmin Said and Milton Johns Sue Me for $2 Million but at this stage a Motion to Dismiss cannot argue matters of fact, just legal reasons. On 04/17/15 my lawyers filed a strong, detailed Motion to Dismiss Executive Summary with Prejudice, which if accepted at hearing, would mean “don’t try again.” In December 2009, Canadian blogger Deep Climate (DC) started finding plagiarism in the 2006 Wegman Report (WR), which attacked the “hockey On 04/30/15, few days before the hearing, Johns filed voluntary stick” and authors Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcom Hughes. dismissals of their complaints, his last day at his own firm Day Johns, Based on those finds, in March 2010 Bradley lodged complaints against the where he had been since 2008. On 05/01/14 he joined Fluet Huber + Hoag. WR and a related paper with George Mason University (GMU). Later, I and At that stage, voluntary dismissal avoided “with prejudice” ruling and made others found more problems and reported them to GMU and journals. it harder to file a “frivolous lawsuit” claim. In March 2011, DC exposed pervasive plagiarism in a paper in Wiley’s Since court documentation is now public, that leaves on the record many WIREs:Computational Statistics journal. Soon after, similar or worse claims that I think are false, misleading or that fall far outside normal problems were found in a 2nd paper. -
Oral History of John Mashey
Oral History of John Mashey Interviewed by: John Markoff Edited by: Dag Spicer Recorded July 10, 2018 Mountain View, CA CHM Reference number: X8712.2019 © 2018 Computer History Museum Oral History of John Mashey Markoff: Today is Wednesday, July 18th, 2018. And we're at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. I'm conducting this interview with John Mashey, who was an early contributor to UNIX at Bell Laboratories, beginning in the 1970s. He moved to Silicon Valley in the 1980s. And has since been involved with a number of the Valley's most significant start-up ventures. So why don't we begin with your family life? Could you give us some family background? I'd be interested in your parents, where they came from, what they did, maybe your earliest memories, and whether you had siblings. Mashey: Okay, so I grew up on a small farm in Western Pennsylvania, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh, just at the edge of Allegheny County. The farm ... and here's a sketch from the 1850s, right? The barn and the farmhouse are still there, although the farmhouse is now a community center for a retirement community. Since it's no longer being farmed, the trees have all grown to take over the pasture that was in front of it. Markoff: And what was farmed when you were living there? Mashey: Oh, what was farmed? Cows and chickens, originally, but you know, we'd grow hay and corn and wheat and oats to feed things. Markoff: Would you call it a dairy farm? Mashey: It was a dairy farm, but it stopped being a dairy farm when State law said, "You must pasteurize milk." And basically small farmers stopped doing dairy, because the economics didn't make sense anymore. -
MIPS Isas & Other Features History, Why’S, Mistakes & Omissions but One of the Longer Survivors!
MIPS ISAs & Other Features History, why’s, mistakes & omissions but one of the longer survivors! John R. Mashey [email protected], @JohnMashey February 24, 2017 (updated from 02/24/17, 11/20/97) UC Santa Barbara – CMPSC 154 – special edition Speaker – John R. Mashey - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey • Small farm in (hilly) Western Pennsylvania N of Pittsburgh, founded ~1850 PA – Climate matters; keep topsoil; fix things; recycle; Liebig’s Law. smog, oil, coal, Marcellus shale • Pennsylvania State University, 1964-1973, BS Math, MS/PhD CMPSC • Bell Labs 1973-1983, early UNIX, MTS → Supervisor New – Programmer’s Workbench, shell programming, text processing, Jersey workload measurement/tuning in first UNIX computer center, etc – Created & managed group with software + cognitive psychologists • Convergent Technologies 1983-1984 ($400M), MTS → Director Software • MIPS Computer Systems 1985-1992, ($150M) Mgr. OS → VP Systems Technology – System coprocessor, TLB, interrupt-handling; byte addressing(!);64-bit; Hot Chips 1989-2016 – MIPS Performance Brief editor; a SPEC benchmarking group founder 1988- (science, statistics) • Silicon Graphics 1992-2000 ($3B),Dir. Systems Technology→ VP & Chief Scientist Silicon – MIPS R10000 & later architecture, including performance counters & software Valley – ccNUMA system architecture (NUMAflex in Origin3000, Altix); supercomputers for NCAR, etc – Performance issues in HPC, DBMS; technology forecasting, software strategy, Big Data – Evangelist work with sales/marketing, business development, alliances, scientists❤ ☹1995 • 2001- Typical Silicon Valley “Semi-retired” some consulting for high-tech co’s, VCs Computer History Museum Trustee; Travel; ski in B.C.; hike; bike; occasionally write articles, do talks Technical advisory boards … interest in climate 2001-, and then a weird hobby 2007- Help climate scientists, expose machinery of doubt, blog, rocks in gears. -
LIFE with UNIX a Guide for Everyone
LIFE WITH UNIX LIFE WITH UNIX A Guide For Everyone Don Libes & Sandy Ressler PRENTICE HALL, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Life with UNIX, A Guide For Everyone UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. Production: Sophie Papanikolaou Cover production: Eloise Starkweather Cover design: Lundgren Graphics, Ltd. Cover artwork: Sandy Ressler Marketing: Mary Franz Life With UNIX was edited and composed with Frame Maker on a Sun Microsystems work- station running UNIX. Camera-ready copy was prepared on a Linotronic 100P by Profession- al Fast-Print Corporation using PostScript files generated by Frame Maker. 1989 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A division of Simon & Schuster Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Prentice-Hall International (UK) Limited, London Prentice-Hall of Australia Pty. Limited, Sydney Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., Toronto Prentice-Hall Hispanoamericana, S.A., Mexico Prentice-Hall of India Priviate Limited, New Delhi Prentice-Hall of Japan, Inc., Tokyo Simon & Schuster Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore Editora Prentice-Hall do Brasil, Ltda., Rio de Janeiro To our loving families Contents Preface .................................................................................................................. xiii How To Read This Book ......................................................................................xvii -
The Machineries of Doubt & Disinformation Cigarettes, Climate
The Machineries of Doubt & Disinformation Cigarettes, Climate & Other Electronic Confusions John R. Mashey JohnMashey AT yahoo PERIOD com @JohnMashey May 10, 2017 Stanford EE380 Overview • Introduction – Speaker: computer scientist/executive stumbles into an alternate universe – Background: books and blogs, consider this vaccine just in case • Climate change science, at most briefly – Consensus: It is warming, we are doing it and it will have (mostly) negative effects. – Evidence at least as strong as that for medical science: smokingdisease – Must reduce GHG emissions to lessen damage, may need to go negative – Implies reengineering of the world’s energy system … tough problem • Anti-science machinery of doubt – organization, people, funding, ideology – Goal: avoid unwanted policy, bypass science/realities in favor of politics – Tobacco anti-science environmental anti-science – Example: Heartland Institute: Joe Camel Innocent, mercury OK, no warming – Example: the Minnesota Social Cost of Carbon case, 2016 – Strong entanglement with politics, including reality-dismissal • Doubt & disinformation in the Internet age and before (examples) • Rocks in the gears • Discussion 1 Speaker – John R. Mashey - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey • Small farm in (hilly) Western Pennsylvania N of Pittsburgh, founded ~1850 PA – Climate matters; keep topsoil; fix things; recycle; Liebig’s Law. smog, oil, coal, Marcellus shale • Pennsylvania State University, 1964-1973, BS Math, MS/PhD CMPSC • Bell Labs 1973-1983, early UNIX, MTS Supervisor New – Programmer’s Workbench, shell programming, text processing, Jersey workload measurement/tuning in first UNIX computer center, etc – Created & managed group with software + cognitive psychologists • Convergent Technologies 1983-1984 ($400M), MTS Director Software • MIPS Computer Systems 1985-1992, ($150M) Mgr. -
Crescendo to Climategate Cacophony Behind the 2006 Wegman Report and Two Decades of Climate Anti-Science John R
Crescendo to Climategate Cacophony Behind the 2006 Wegman Report and Two Decades of Climate Anti-Science John R. Mashey* Climate science has produced increasingly-stronger scientific results intentionally obscured by an increasingly-noisy anti-science PR campaign. This has surged in a long crescendo from 1990 to the cacophony of ―Climategate,‖ the email hack of the University of East Anglia‘s Climatic Research Unit. This 185-page report details the long history of these attacks, including funding flows, organizations, people and tactics. It highlights the reality behind a 2005-2006 campaign that purposefully misled Congress. Its results have formed a pillar of the anti-science PR campaign to this day, including Climategate. Although the author has benefited from frequent discussions with leading researchers, the report is based primarily on public information - government reports, organizations' websites, peer-reviewed articles, scholarly books and existing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data. This report shows in detail: A tight network of organizations and individuals funded and executed the long campaign. They used well-honed tactics pioneered by tobacco companies, but to obscure the dangers of second-hand smoke, acid rain, chlorofluorocarbons and greenhouse gas emissions. From 2001 to 2005, several of these, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Senator James Inhofe and allies found ―new voices‖ in Canadians Ross McKitrick & Steven McIntyre, encouraged them and introduced them to Washington, DC. Using the old tactics, they tried to discredit specific scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2005, Representatives Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield unusually demanded information from climate scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcom Hughes, originators of a 1999 ―hockey stick‖ graph later used in the IPCC 2001 reports.