A few nice online photo editor images I found:
Robert Miner R.I.P.
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I have received the saddest news today. Robert Miner, a dear colleague from the MathWG, has passed away leaving wife and child behind. His legacy I am sure will live on: he has been the editor of the MathML spec, where I had the pleasure of working with him. I recall a most enjoyable trip from Lisbon to Porto in the train, on our way to a conference, during which we talked away for hours on matters of mathematics representation on the web. I also have a fond memory of a small crusade we run together to try to convince the Sage group to adopt or at least look into OpenMath and MathML. He gave a most brilliant survey talk on a search engine for mathematics during MKM07 "An Approach to Mathematical Search through Query Formulation and Data Normalization". Most recently, as vice president of Design Science, he has surely been instrumental in the creation of MathJax, to make mathematics accessible online.
I will miss him, and I am sure so will the entire W3C Math working group.
Robert did not want a funeral, but let's play Birdland for him because those with wings are angels.
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This is his CV from the company site, Design Science
Robert Miner
Vice President, Research and Development
Robert leads Design Science's research and development efforts. Located in St. Paul, Minnesota, Robert joined Design Science when the company acquired the WebEQ product line from Geometry Technologies in 2000. Robert oversees the development of the company's WebEQ, MathPlayer and MathFlow product lines, has initiated research programs for adding value to electronic math content, including math-aware searching and mathematics accessibility, and writes and speaks extensively on the impact of MathML on technical publishing.
Prior to joining Design Science, Robert taught at the University of Oklahoma, worked at the University of Minnesota's Geometry Center pursuing interdisciplinary research in math and electronic communication, and later co-founded Geometry Technologies. Robert also worked on World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) initiative to standardize and XML markup language for mathematics, and eventually co-chaired the technical working group that developed MathML. Robert's received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Maryland, and studied at Oxford and Universität Bern.
(this photo was originally posted to Flickr on 10/24/2008, 14:30)
Godfathers of Bangalore © WIRED
Image by lecercle
‘Agni’ Sridhar, a former Bangalore don turned filmaker, editor and journalist at his house in Bangalore. His bangalore is walled complex with electic fences and 20 foot walls around it.
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The online version of the story is here -http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-11/mf_mobgalore?currentPage=1
Here is the entire set -
www.flickr.com/photos/lecercle/sets/72157617354409347/
