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The Reason for this Web Log

 

WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, immortal, and limitless in my ambitions, I dreamt that nothing was impossible. In our own world of boundless ideas, we wanted to be all things to all people and all things to ourselves: lovers, explorers, idle romancers, linguists, and, perhaps, compatriots of the best minds in Western Civilization whose singular voice, echoing out of the poets and historians of our twelfth grade curriculum, reminded us that the world is strange, beautiful, and unexplored.

And didn't we want to be earth movers and discovers of new principles, and expositors of here-to-fore unrecognized truths, so like Archimedes we might say, "Give me a place to stand and I will move the world"?

About Me

EARL COX. In this world of concrete objects and reliable causality, I am a sixty-five year old classical philologist with a keen interest in the evolution of early urban metaphors in Homeric Greek; since 1972, the founder and president of three software companies specializing in the application of machine intelligence (such as fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms) to a wide spectrum of optimization problems and behavior models; a columnist for technology magazines, and the author of several books (including the multiple-award winning Beyond Humanity – Cyberevolution and Future Minds which I co-authored with Greg Paul, who was the dinosaur advisor on the original Jurassic Park movie).

In addition to an upcoming murder mystery, I am also working on a book, Vanishing Landscapes, a photographic journey through the rapidly disappearing farms and towns on Maryland's eastern shore (due out next fall). And I have just recently begun work on The Ghosts of the Mother Lode a photographic book of the gold and silver ghost towns in Nevada, Arizona, and eastern California (due out when I have spent my advance!).



Here I am in my native habitat, discovering heretofore unknown principles of thermodynamics, unwinding the expansion of the visible universe, solving long unfathomable paradoxes in quantum mechanics, and decoding the secret language of women.



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Earl Cox

Co-Author "Beyond Humanity - Cyberevolution and Future Minds"

(with Greg Paul; Charles River Media, October 1996)