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JacquesC

Prof. Jacques Carette

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20 years, 76 days
McMaster University
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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From a Maple perspective: I first started using it in 1985 (it was Maple 4.0, but I still have a Maple 3.3 manual!). Worked as a Maple tutor in 1987. Joined the company in 1991 as the sole GUI developer and wrote the first Windows version of Maple (for Windows 3.0). Founded the Math group in 1992. Worked remotely from France (still in Math, hosted by the ALGO project) from fall 1993 to summer 1996 where I did my PhD in complex dynamics in Orsay. Soon after I returned to Ontario, I became the Manager of the Math Group, which I grew from 2 people to 12 in 2.5 years. Got "promoted" into project management (for Maple 6, the last of the releases which allowed a lot of backward incompatibilities, aka the last time that design mistakes from the past were allowed to be fixed), and then moved on to an ill-fated web project (it was 1999 after all). After that, worked on coordinating the output from the (many!) research labs Maplesoft then worked with, as well as some Maple design and coding (inert form, the box model for Maplets, some aspects of MathML, context menus, a prototype compiler, and more), as well as some of the initial work on MapleNet. In 2002, an opportunity came up for a faculty position, which I took. After many years of being confronted with Maple weaknesses, I got a number of ideas of how I would go about 'doing better' -- but these ideas required a radical change of architecture, which I could not do within Maplesoft. I have been working on producing a 'better' system ever since.

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Great Math Video...

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December 18 2006
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The audience for this video of a blind date between exp(1) and Pi is not huge, but to the right one it is quite funny!

Old-timer techniques...

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December 17 2006
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So you think you really want to know what Maple does? Are you really sure? Well, here is how old-timers do it. [I do not claim that this is either the best or the modern way to do it, just that this is how people with over 10 years of Maple experience do it].

Amusing mapleprimes bug...

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December 07 2006
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The very first 2 posts on MaplePrimes (first, second) show up on the last page with entries on recent posts. Today (Dec. 6, 2006), that happens to be page 63, although the last icon zaps one further to an empty page (another bug?). Anyways, it is interesting to see that those 2 posts were done 36 years and 49 weeks ago. Gotta love how MaplePrimes seriously pre-dates Maple itself!

Lambda the Ultimate...

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November 25 2006
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Lambda the Ultimate is a community site for programming languages. The name comes from The Original 'Lambda Papers' by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman. Yep, that Guy Steele, co-creator of Scheme, then Java, now working on Fortress. Fortress is intended to be a disruptive technology (like Java was), and is squarely aiming at markets that are currently served by Fortran and Matlab.

Front for the Arxiv and CoRR...

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November 25 2006
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My daily routine involves a look at what's new in academic Math via the ArXiv (through the convenient Front interface at UC-Davis), and in academic CS via the lesser-known Computing Research Repository. Actually, I use the nice feature both have to have an email (with links) sent to me every weekday with new posts in my areas of interest.
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