Dr Jim Richardson Computing Manager School of Mathematics and Statistics F07 University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Email: jimr@maths.usyd.edu.au FAX: +61 2 9351 4534

Though a mathematician by training, I have been a computer systems officer in Mathematics at Sydney since 1982, working first on a VMS VAX/11-780, then from 1988 on Apollo Domain OS workstations under Unix, from 1995 on Alpha machines under Digital/Compaq/Tru64 Unix, and more recently on Debian Linux systems.

From March 2004 to May 2005 I was chair of the University's Federation of IT Providers Steering Committee.

From 18 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, I am on secondment as ICT Relationship Manager for the College of Sciences and Technology.

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Man can only fully understand what he has made; the corollary to that is, that what man has made he can understand: it will not, like the physical world, remain impervious to his desire to understand.

            --- ````Old Vico'''' [Giambattista Vico 1668-1744]

                --- ``Frank Walker Barr, Time's Body''

                    --- John Crowley, Ægypt