Talk:John Mashey/Archive 1

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The May 18 edit had to have been written by someone who doesn't know me, i.e., saying that I am a computer programmer and entrepreneur.

I haven't been a real programmer since around 1978, when I became a manager.

That could say: computer scientist (probably the best choice) software/hardware architect engineering manager or a few other things, but "computer programmer" is silly.

JohnMashey (talk) 07:03, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks to squiddy for repelling 124.191.73.156's attempt to rewrite reality in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Mashey&action=historysubmit&diff=423674399&oldid=423673006, i.e. to add:
 * "Mashey's accusation against Wegman has proved groundless and as a result he (Mashey) has been seen to be nothing other than a partisan hack. Mashey has also publicly stated that the term computer scientist is silly, however he seemed to have no problem referring to himself as Chief scientist during his ill-fated time at Silicon graphics."

As per http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2011/04/john_mashey_seminar_live_on_we.php#comment-3635253, apparently I was wrong, and 124.191.73.156 does have a name, Joe Cambria. He may have reading problems - compare what I wrote above with his version.

"Computer scientist" is OK, although "retired computer executive" is probably even more appropriate these days, even if I do still keep my hand in with computer architecture & strategy. It is amusing that an Australian presumably hears of my talks in Canada last week, http://www.pics.uvic.ca/assets/pdf/seminars/Mashey_Apr2011.pdf, and has nothing better to do than try to hack a Wikipedia entry. Of course, that leaves Joe 0 for 2 so far.JohnMashey (talk) 02:23, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm sure you are a very good computer middle manager
(or whatever you want to call it). But kinda fail to see why you should be in an encyclopedia. Ain't no Grace Hopper, sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.43.222 (talk) 06:35, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * A quick Google check shows at least 3 mentions of Mashey's report on Wegman's alleged plagiarism at USA Today. So he probably meets our minimum requirements for notability -- see WP:GNG. --Pete Tillman (talk) 19:58, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

I don't pay much attention to this,but stirred by recent discussions about notability and "This biographical article needs additional citations for verification." tag, I list here some publications in case anyone wants to add a few to the page. Of course, not being an academic, writing papers was not my highest priority, but here are some. Among the computing papers, I've tagged the better known with (*). Anyone interested in "Big Data" might check the talk page for some history. Unfortunately, I know of no journal-published article on Numaflex, the closest being these notes I wrote on USENET a few months before retiring from SGI. There is a relevant patent:

US Letters Patent No. 6,829,666 - Modular Computing Architecture Having Common Communications Interface. Deneroff, Dean, McCann, Brennan, Parry, Mashey. Base patent for the SGI Origin 3000 & Altix ccNUMA product lines, first shipped in 2000, and which have generated at least a few $Billion in revenue. The overall architectural approach was still being used by SGI in 2011 (SGI Altix UV).

Papers John R. Mashey, “Strange Problems in the Wegman Report,” Skeptical Inquirer Vol 35, No 2 March/April 2011, 16-18.

John R. Mashey, “American Physical Society Rejects Climate Anti-Science,” Skeptical Inquirer Vol 34, No 2 March/April 2010, 15-16.


 * John R. Mashey, “The Long Road to 64 Bits”, Communications ACM Vol. 52, No. 1, January 2009, 45-53.

John R. Mashey, “The Long Road to 64 Bits”, ACM Queue Vol. 4, No. 8, October 2006, 24-35. http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=421

http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=245
 * John R. Mashey, “Languages, Levels, Libraries, and Longevity”, ACM Queue Vol. 2, No. 9, December-January 2004-2005, 32-38.


 * John R. Mashey, “War of the Benchmark Means: Time for a Truce”, ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Vol. 32, No. 4, September 2004, 1-14.

J. R. Mashey, D. Ramm, “Databases on RISC: still the future,” UNIX Review, September 1996, 47-54.

J. Mashey, “Here’s a Good Hint on Performance,” Client/Server Today, vol 1, no 6 (October 1994), 53-54.


 * J. R. Mashey, “64-bit Computing,” BYTE magazine, September 1991, 135-142.

J. Mashey, “SPEC Results Help Normalize Vendor Mips-Ratings for Sensible Comparison,” SPEC Newsletter, 1990.

John R. Mashey, “UNIX: Leverage – Past, Present, Future,” USENIX Conference Proceedings, January 21, 1987, Washington, D.C, 1-8. (Keynote).


 * M. DeMoney, J. Moore, J. Mashey, “Operating System Support on a RISC,” Proc. IEEE Compcon, March 4-6, 1986, 108-120.

J. R. Mashey, “What’s All the Fuss About RISC?,” UNIX Review Vol 4, No 2 (Feb 1986), 37-50.


 * J. R. Mashey, “RISC, MIPS, and the Motion of Complexity,” Proc. Uniforum Conference, 116-124, 1986.

J. R. Mashey, “Perspectives on Programming Environments,” Proc. ACM 1983 computer science conference, 1983, 31-34.


 * M. H. Bianchi, R. J. Glushko, J. R. Mashey, “A Software/Documentation Development Environment Built from the UNIX Toolkit,” in Automated Tools for Information Systems Design, A. I. Wasserman, ed, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1982.

M. H. Bianchi, J. R. Mashey, “Rapid Prototyping on UNIX™,” Software Engineering Symposium: Rapid Prototyping, Columbia, ND, 1982.


 * B. W. Kernighan, J. R. Mashey, “The Unix Programming Environment,” IEEE Computer Vol 14, no 4, 12-24, April 1981.

T. A. Dolotta, J. R. Mashey, “Using a Command Language as the Primary Programming Tool,” Proc. IFIP WG 2.7 Working Conference on Command Languages, Berchtesgaden, West Germany, September 10-14, 1979, D. Beech, Ed, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1980.

Brian W. Kernighan, John R. Mashey, “The UNIX™ Programming Environment,” Software: Practice and Experience 9 (1): 1-15 (1979).

P. S. Boggs, J. R. Mashey, “Cable Repair Administrative System,” Bell System Technical Journal, July-August 1982, Vol 61, no 2, Part 2, 1275-1292.


 * T. A. Dolotta, R. C. Haight, J. R. Mashey, “The Programmer’s Workbench,” Bell System Technical Journal, July-August 1978, vol. 57, no. 6, Part 2, 2177-2200.


 * T. A. Dolotta, J. R. Mashey, “An Introduction to the Programmer’s Workbench,” Proc. 2nd International Conf on Software Engineering, San Francisco, CA, October 13-15 1976, 164-168.


 * J. R. Mashey, “Using a Command Language as a High-Level Programming Language,” Proc. 2nd ICSE, San Francisco, CA, October 13-15 1976, 169-176.

J. R. Mashey, D. W. Smith, “Documentation Tools and Techniques,” Proc 2nd ICSE, San Francisco, CA, October 13-15 1976, 177-181.


 * J. R. Mashey, “Three years’ experience with a student-oriented assembler,” SIGCSE Bulletin 5 (1973), 157-165.

J. R. Mashey, G. M. Campbell, C. Forney, Jr. “Assist: a self-modifiable assembler for instructional purposes,” Proc. ACM annual conference, 1972.

P. W. Jeran, J. R. Mashey, “A Computer Program for the Stereographic Analysis of Coal Fractures and Cleats,” US Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8454, March 1970.

JohnMashey (talk) 22:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

For something recent and citable, see 2012 USENIX Flame Award or Steve Lohr's The Origins of ‘Big Data’: An Etymological Detective Story. For some earlier well-known talks, try Software Strategy from the 1980 Time Capsule, where one can find early precursors for Agile Programming.JohnMashey (talk) 06:06, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I have added the USENIX award; someone else already cited the NYT's Big Data piece. I also sourced some uncited sentences to, but couldn't help noticing that the sentences are almost identical there. I'm not removing these as obvious copy & paste, because they have been in this article since it was started in 2004, whereas the Internet Archive's oldest copy of the CHM's biography page dates from 2007. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:35, 8 April 2013 (UTC)