Jon Claerbout's Official Retirement Party in Alaska

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Get off your duff!   Go outside!   Get on a plane!   Go to Alaska!   If not now, when?
Get outdoors and go to Alaska!   When will you get your next chance?

(program outline)

Thursday, May 15, 2008

We could use a few more speakers. How about you?

Morning theme:
Something in my professional life that students should know

  1. Jon Claerbout:   Top of the things I've learned, 1958-2008
  2. Oz Yilmaz:   I have broadened my seismic band-width and depth-width
  3. Steve Doherty:   It's the oil Business, stupid!
  4. Joe Dellinger:   The Atlantis Green-Canyon earthquake dataset: How I helped the USGS
  5. Rick Ottolini:   Interpretative processing then and now
  6. John Etgen:   To be arranged.
  7. Biondo Biondi:   To be arranged.
  8. Steve Cole:   Some projects I've done since I left SEP.
  9. David Lumley:   Fun with waves at SEP and beyond.
  10. Antoine Guitton:   Fun with students

Afternoon theme:
35 years of SEP people, computers, projects, and fun

Jon Claerbout:   How it came about we are here in Alaska

SLIDE SHOW (slides below)   Jon will say a sentence (or 3) positive about each person who has been associated with SEP followed by audience supplementation (or rebutal?).   Who will be Master of Ceremonies for this most entertaining part of our program?

Speakers from the IBM/line printer generation
Phil Schultz: Should you consider your career to be more like a tennis match or a round of golf?"

PDP/array processor/techtronix generation

Zhiming Li:   Things I did not know: 1958-2008

VAX, troff, AED (first frame buffer) generation
Stew Levin:   What has defined SEP and how has it evolved
Joe Dellinger:   Vplot, SEP's graphics language, and why it is used in many places today.

Convex/LaTeX/Sun generation

SLIDE SHOW:   Tell us about the '89 earthquake!
John Etgen:   To be arranged.
Steve Cole:   The week SEP folks laid 4052 geophones and what they got.

Thinking Machine generation

Biondo Biondi:   Parallel computing <=> 3D seismic
Dimitri Bevc:   "How Jon Claerbout helped start 3DGeo." (I bet he doesn't even know!)

Internet/reproducible research generation
Martin, Matt, or Marie:

Speakers from cluster generation
Guojian, Alejandro, Bill, or Bob:

Present and recent students?
Jeff:

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Click any to enlarge.  
See anybody you know?   Click on their picture.
Anybody missing?   Send me their photo.
Hate your picture?   Send me a replacement.
Slide show with stories in Alaska!

Who are all these people? The file name gives you a clue. (I almost never put pictures with full names on the internet.)

Who is missing? All friends and people who were here a long while are welcome. Daniel will send me his.

Joe Dellinger's 25th reunion web site provides a great source of materials for fun.   Unveiling of the skylight in the attic of Stanfords Mitchell Earth Science Building (paid for by alumni)   A slide show about the '89 earthquake!   A slide show of our computer hardware thru the years.