Romuald Ireneus 'Scibor-Marchocki

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• Research Institute for the Study of Man (rism.org)
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• Profession

  • Mathematics
  • Computer Science (computer programming)
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Electrical Engineering (Electronics)

• Education

  • Highland Park High School; Highland Park, Michigan -- College Preparatory
  • WSU = Wayne University
    • College of Liberal Arts -- Physics & Mathematics double major, Chemistry minor
    • Graduate School -- Mathematics major, Physics minor
  • Caltech = California Institute of Technology: Graduate School -- Physics major
  • USC = University of Southern California: Graduate School -- Mathematics major, Electrical Engineering minor
  • MtSAC = Mt San Antonio Community College -- Art major

• Memberships

  • Mensa = a high IQ society (life member).
  • AAAS = American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Sigma Xi = scientific honor society (life member)
  • NGS = the National Geographic Society (life member)
  • NRA = National Rifle Association (life member, at the "Patron" level).
  • N = the Naturist Society (life member).
  • FFA = Free for All (life member).

• Languages

  • human
    • French, which I failed in High School
    • Spanish four semesters in High School, with a grade of B
    • German three semesters in College. I don't know it; but, hey, I passed two graduate examinations
    • Russian a little, I passed one graduate examination
    • Polish fluent
    • English fluent
  • computer, I am a polyglot
    • machine (various architectures)
    • assembly (many computers)
    • Fortran = FORmula TRANslator I, II, IV, V, etc.
    • Basic (various dialects) and Visual Basic (1 and up).
    • APL = A Programming Language
    • JCL = Job Control Language
    • TMG = a compiler meta language, which is a superset of BNF
    • C and C++
    • Perl = Practical Extraction and Report Language
    • HTML = HyperText Markup Language

• Honors

  • elected to Sigma Pi Sigma = physics honor society
  • awarded a Detroit Board of Education scholarship for one year
  • elected to Sigma Xi = science honor society
  • awarded an Atomic Energy Commission fellowship for one year
  • granted US Government Civil Service GS-15 (Research Scientist) rating
    • science - mathematics
    • science - physics
  • obtained a Life California Community College Instructor certificate # 106056: 29 12 SCI 001
    • mathematics
    • physics

• Accomplishments

  • devised an algorithm for the evaluation of the incomplete third elliptic integral, in each of its cases
  • wrote the definitive Principles of Operation for the IBM - 650 computer
  • wrote a tracing debugger, in machine language, for the IBM - 650 computer
  • began my Treatise on the Theory of Information
  • developed the TMG meta-compiler
  • devised an algorithm for finding the determinant, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and spectral analysis of non-symmetric or non-Hermitian matrices
  • designed a caching SCSI disk controlling system
  • studying the Windows NT 4.0 server; since early October 1999, Windows 2000 Advanced Server; since January 2004, Windows 2003 Enterprise [server]; since August 2005, Fedora core 4 and SuSE 10 Linuxes and Windows Visa.

• My companion bitches

  • photograph with brief description of each breed
    • Wolczica (Sunday 07-th May 1989 - December 2004) 24.5 Kgm., a black, with tan markings (San Miguel color pattern), German Shepherd Dog
    • Koszmar (October 1994 - ) 25 Kgm., a tan, with black markings, German Shepherd Dog
    • Freckles (October 1994 - October 2003) 28 - 31 Kgm., red and white, a longhaired Saint Bernard and her two puppies (by a visiting Boxer)
      • Sagitarius (Monday 15-th February 1999 - October 2003) 47.2 Kgm, a red male.  he has a black muzzle, with two white stars underneath
      • Strelica Regina (Monday 15-th February 1999 - ) 34.1 Kgm, tan, with extensive black markings; thus darker than Koszmar
    • Eridanus (20-th October 2004 - ) 65 Kgm (and growing) male mahogany Saint Bernard.
  • enjoy
    • going for a walk with me
    • eating the abundant avocadoes in my orchard
    • looking for and chasing cats!

• Miscellaneous

  • Online complete textbook of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and Synthetic Geometry.
  • Six-way Analysis of Variance shareware online documentation. The zip-file (2.3 MBytes) of the program is available from the webmaster, upon request.
  • Lessons in Linear Algebra.
  • Research of Information Theory.

• In addition

  to all of the foregoing,

  • Photography, computer graphics, and desk-top publishing are are hobbies of mine.
  • I am a participant in the Friends of the Faire at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, in San Bernardino County, California..
  • Because of or in spite of everything else, I also managed to earn a living.
  • Additional information.

Horse

contributed by a very good friend.

Originally created on the 31-st of August 1995; but hosted on a different site.