VISFILES Goodbye This is my last VisFiles column. It has been a real privilege to write VisFiles and to have the opportunity to invite so many fine contributions from others. I d like to thank Patricia Galvis-Assmus, Lynn Valastyan and Gordon Cameron for excellent editorial support, and to thank all those who contributed guest columns. And I am delighted that Kwan-Liu Ma of the University of California at Davis has agreed to take over VisFiles. He will do an excellent job. This final VisFiles is a list of ideas that might have been columns. Bill Hibbard Newton is the intellectual grandfather of everyone in the visualization community. In addition to being the greatest thinker in human history, Newton was a very interesting person. He believed that the truth about the physical world could be derived from the Bible, but that since he was not smart enough to do that he had to understand the world by scientific experiment. He practiced alchemy. He died a virgin and put a lot of emotional energy into feuds with other scientists. He spent a couple years in a deep depression that ended his most creative work. He was a closet Unitarian
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Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 2003
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