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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (10549)	7/5/2005 10:10:59 AM
From: fred g	Respond to of 46821

Good speech, though not quite up to Steve Jobs' recent Stanford presentation. The mis-transcriptions by the local paper are the funniest, though. "Co-division multiple acts"! You'd think that Jacobs would have had an official transcript handy, or the newspaper would have had someone knowledgeable in the field to proofread it. A common theme of both Jobs' and Jacobs' presentations is that progress is not always planned, but is often serendipitous. Jobs dropped in on a calligraphy course for the fun of it, and later applied its principles to the Macintosh GUI. Jacobs found Shannons' theories interesting and did work that people though was simply "applied math", never to really be used in products; two decades later it got applied to CDMA. Jacobs makes an interesting reference to engineers running China. The March 2005 IEEE Spectrum (big China issue) notes, For the first time ever, all the members of China's elite Politburo Standing Committee, the highest tier within the Communist Party, are card-carrying engineers." (It names the nine people who collectively run the country; water conservancy engineer turned President Hu's on first.) I'm not sure this gives a country the kind of balanced leadership that it should have, but it does tell you where their priorities are and what to expect them to focus on.