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Current time and date is 01:51 26 June 2024 (GMT)

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Name	Norman
Birth	28 Aug	1932
Birthplace	Brooklyn,	New York
Residence	Southern Maryland	Washington, D.C. suburb
Education	C.C.N.Y.; U. of MD; U. of MI	B.S.E.E, M.A. Mathematics, Ph.D. Psych. (Mathematical)

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This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

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• Acceptance test
• Adverse selection
• Analog computer
• Architecture and Architecture (disambiguation)
• Automation
• Catastrophic failure
• Computer software
• Corporate governance
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Data Processor
• Deadlock
• Deflation (economics)
• Engineer
• Engineering
• Event handler
• Exclusive
• Exhaust
• HOL
• Hybrid computer
• Inclusive
• Insourcing
• Interface Control Document
• Interrupt handler
• KISS principle
• Mind-body problem
• Object-oriented programming
• Operational definition
• Paleolithic
• Process (computing)
• Reentrant
• Social progress
• Software architect
• Software architecture
• Solipsism
• Specification
• Stand-alone
• Stock exchange
• Stock Market
• System
• Systems engineering
• Technician
• Technology
• Thrash (computer science)
• Work-around

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• Hardware architect
• Hardware architecture
• Systems architect
• Systems architecture
• Wikipedia:Starter toolset

Major Interests

• Philosophy of science
• Philosophy of physics | Interpretation of quantum mechanics | Philosophy of space and time
• Philosophy of biology | Anthropology
• Securities market trading
• Opera, Folk music, Operetta, musical theater, popular vocals (especially from the '20s, 30's, 40s, and 50s)— all forms of sung music that have a pleasant melody (even some rock music).

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