[FRIAM] Most active FRIAM members

[Jochen Fromm]

oh I didn't know that Pamela passed away too. My condolences. She was certainly one of the more famous list members. I have asked ChatGPT to describe each of the list members, and it was impressed by Pamela and her books about AI. Her last book from 2019 was named "This could be important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia"https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/book/This_Could_Be_Important_My_Life_and_Times_with_the_Artificial_Intelligentsia/31079929-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> Date: 8/22/26  6:19 PM  (GMT+01:00) To: friam at redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Most active FRIAM members > The most frequent posters on FRIAM in descending order (according to > the archive at https://mail-archive.com/friam@redfish.com/ ). Steve, > Marcus and Nick are the top 3. Carl Tollander and Douglas Roberts are > no longer with us :-( I would have liked to hear Carl playing drums or > Douglas playing the saxophone.>Jochen/PhellowPhriamers -I was a little surprised (chagrined) to realize I'd topped the list by frequency of post ( and very likely by volume of text).  I'd be interested in a ranking of consequentiality which of course is in the eye of the beholder.   I could give my own ranking of how consequential many of your offerings have been here for me over the years, but naturally it is a multi-dimensional field of "optimality".   The broad spectrum of backgrounds and modes of thoughts present here have been valuable to me over this last 20+ years.I believe we once had a broader international representation, and I recognize that a few are simply very low frequency posters. Sarbajit (india) and (probably unsubscribed now Mohammed al Begatey (Egypt/Sweden), Schlitz (Ecuador)...We are very male-heavy here and I'd like to nod to.Merle for sticking in here with us.  Jenny Q still monitors and occasionally pops in and I'm pretty sure Dede Densmore withdrew entirely a long while ago..  Pamela was a strong voice before her passing in 2021...  we may well have a few "lurkers" as well.  I've lost at least one name I know to fit this category.We are also pretty age/education/vocation sqewed toward "elder academic".   I don't know who our youngest members are,  Gil and Cody maybe?   Possibly Jon?  I think Roger Frye might be our eldest with a solid handful not far behind?There is strong representation from the Computer Science/Engineering/Systems world but I really appreciate the complementary voices from the so-called "English Majors".   Jenny and Merle and Tom are the most obvious to me in this category...There are also a few other names of those who have passed (Pamela, Vladimyr, Lissaman) and notably our resident ?founding? member who brought ethnography into our midst (name-brain-fade).The Santa Fe Complex (sfX) contingent overlaps strongly and I sometimes lose track of the distinction.  And of course there are many other overlaps and partitionings...  BiosGroup escapees, SFI affiliations, Redfish/SimTable.We also have the local in-person coffee group who are not consistently vocal here (notably Ed Angel).Carry On!> 1. Steve Smith> 2. Marcus Daniels> 3. Nicholas (Nick) Thompson> 4. Owen Densmore> 5. David (Dave) West> 6. Frank Wimberly> 7. Glen Ropella> 8. Tom Johnson> 9. Jochen Fromm (DE)> 10. Eric Charles> 11. Roger Critchlow> 12. Douglas Roberts> 13. Jon Zingale> 14. Gillian Densmore> 15. Stephen Guerin> 16. Pieter Steenekamp (ZA)> 17. Merle Lefkoff> 18. Russel Standish (AU)> 19. Phil Henshaw> 20. Robert Holmes> 21. Barry MacKichan> 22. Russ Abbott> 23. Carl Tollander> 24. Pamela McCorduck> 25. Eric Smith> 26. Gary Schiltz> 27. John Kennison> 28. Bruce Sherwood> 29. Sarbajit Roy (IN)> 30. Roger Frye> 31. Pietro Terna (IT)> 32. Doug Carmichael>> -J.>> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. > --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe   /   Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> archives:  5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/>  1/2003 thru 6/2021  http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/>
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