The Eternal Doorman

This was an interview conducted in 2006. It's a total joy to listen to. He died on October 27, 2011. See  Robert Bly - A Thousand Years of Joy . Stop your stupid fucking wars!  Subscribe to Tree+ . 

She talks about her latest song,... Mariposa Tecknicolor See  Yo Canto 2  for the album.  Resta in Ascolto (21 December 2012) I don't think she's ever played in Bolivia. Subscribe to Billboard Latin and Laura Pausini . 

Merge/upload from an UX-unfriendly page with Vimeo player on simonsfoundation.org . All rights on this video belong to Simons Foundation. 00:00:00​ Highlights 00:03:53​ Early Years in California, Arizona and Choosing Stanford 00:10:39​ Faculty at Stanford in Mathematics and the New Computer Science 00:14:49​ First Job at GTE Sylvania 00:20:20​ Faculty in Math and Computer Science at Stanford 00:25:11​ Work in England 00:28:36​ Back to Stanford 00:31:24​ Operations Research at Stanford 00:38:53​ Is Linear Programming Polynomial Time? 00:44:33​ Karmarkar’s Algorithm 00:49:48​ Creating Algorithms and Writing Software 01:00:13​ Working at Bell Labs: a Liberating Experience 01:03:05​ Bell Labs Nostalgia and Moving to Courant 01:09:12​ Being Department Chair at the Courant Institute 01:13:39​ Girls and Computer Science 01:17:09​ Committees and SIAM 01:25:03​ Advisory committees and the NAS 01:39:09​ Editing SIAM journals 01:43:44​ Applications That Work 01:47:51​ Accomplishments and Progress...

This is a really well-made biographical documentary. Robert Bly died on Nov 21, 2021. I once attended an amazing double-act he did with James Hillman in Bristol Cathedral. I remember particularly  this poem  by Antonio Machado.  Subscribe to Poetry Docs .  See also  James Hillman on Changing the Object of Our Desire .  Subscribe to Tree+ . 

You can tell a lot about people through the company they keep. The University of Cambridge administration systems are run by an Oracle subsidiary.  Subscribe to  The Drey Dossier  and see her Substack page  https://substack.com/@thedreydossier . Kyla Scanlon on what a Civil War looks like these days.  Subscribe to Kyla Scanlon .