Tom Wayburn
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering |
| Occupation | Retired professor etc. |
| Location | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Born March 24, 1934, Detroit, Michigan. • Redford High School Detroit 1951. • BS chemical engineering Michigan 1956. • MS mathematics NYU 1968. • PhD chemical engineering Utah 1980. • Studied jazz drumming with Lennie Tristano, Joe Morello, Philly Joe Jones, Cozy Cole, Stanley Specter. • Here is an mp3 version of the record I made with Lennie Tristano and Peter Ind when I was 22 years old. If you are interested, copy http://dematerialism.net/tristano.mp3 and paste into browser. • Hack engineering, chemical process design. • Teaching chemical engineering at various levels: thermodynamics, plant design, applied mathematics. • Writing and reviewing for the peer-reviewed scientific and engineering literature, principally numerical analysis. • Software development, computational chemical engineering. • Political activism, principally anti-war and anti-growth, preaching limits to growth and advent of Peak Oil. • Computational research in energy and economics. • Internet publishing: dematerialism.net • Railroad modeling and model railroad photography: http://modrr.net/. |
| Interests | Computational political economics. Please see "The Demise of Business as Usual" and "Energy Flow in a Mark II Economy" at http://dematerialism.net/ |
| Favorite movies | The Silence (Bergman), Last Year at Marienbad, The Murmur of the Heart |
| Favorite music | Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, MJQ, Igor Stravinsky, J.S. Bach, Mozart |
| Favorite books | One Hundred Years of Solitude, Bleak House, Jude the Obscure, Ficciones |