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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (25445)	2/13/1999 2:47:00 PM
From: EPS	Respond to of 42771

Hi Scott, Well as you can see your DIGITAL ME thing has all of us busy here! Yes, legend has it that Galois died young (17?22?)in a duel and the night before wrote this wonderful theory..I learned this stuff so long ago that right now I only remember the name of the book that I read for that class (by Birkoff and McLane, Algebra?).(The idea roughly being that just like when you try to solve the equation x^2=-1 within the real numbers and you find that there are no solutions within this field you then enlarge the field a bit to create a new larger field where the equation can be actually solved, in this particular example of course the larger field would be the complex numbers). Thanks for your very interesting comments. I'm still trying to find out more about Huang's ideas. (I know a number of people studying traffic bottle necks using a variety of models. For example I've seen one model based on the mundane highway (not the information superhighway mind you but just your every day interstate), I was amazed to see, in this particular model, the dramatic effect that slow cars can have if they are placed in certain strategic places...) Regards Victor

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (25445)	2/14/1999 7:22:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 42771

Scott..... >>A couple of years ago I posted on these boards my beliefs that people designing the infrastructure will one day wake up to the fact that "object routing" and real-time "flow management" will become the higher-level, more efficient ways to deal with information on the Internet.>> We are IN this space right NOW in the securities industry. Our object routers reduce throughput demands on retrieving quotes and trade messages - reducing latency by 1-3 seconds compared to the fastest tickerplants out there from Reuters and others. Have Novell give me a call so we can discuss this with someone when I'm in SLC in early March. We are deploying this technology NOW in many BIG firms. We want to go higher from this by utilizing Novell's NDS for for the cross-platform fusion that awaits us.