<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">fabio vicentini</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fmvicent@gmail.com">fmvicent@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:09 PM<br>Subject: Informe sobre la corrupcion en Exactas - Parte 20 - addendum<br>To: "<a href="mailto:m.sniedovich@ms.unimelb.edu.au">m.sniedovich@ms.unimelb.edu.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:m.sniedovich@ms.unimelb.edu.au">m.sniedovich@ms.unimelb.edu.au</a>><br>
Cc: "D.K.Smith" <<a href="mailto:D.K.Smith@exeter.ac.uk">D.K.Smith@exeter.ac.uk</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="PT-BR">Buenos
Aires, November 21, 2013</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Moshe,<span style="color:blue"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Subject:
How to steal the idea and then kill the source.</span><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">I’m
afraid you didn’t get the photo. Let me try again.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">When
I was a child I looked up to grown-up people with awe, I was impressed by their
serious countenance. My mother took me to church where monsignor Tartuffe told
me that God is three but only one true entity, contradicting the arithmetic I
was being taught at school. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Just
out of the secondary school, I entered college where professor Pangloss defined
a real number by a schnitt in the set of rational numbers. I did not grasp the
definition and turned to my companions for help, but they made me feel stupid
since it was such an obvious notion. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Somewhere
along the path to Damasco I realized that they didn't know how a light bulb is
made, and I started to smell a rat: Are they taking me for a ride? Now I am a
grown-up myself, and know how to be serious: I just put on a solemn face, and
pretend I understand what the hell is going on in this goddamn world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">I
spent 30 years as an OR practitioner in a dozen dirty, bad smelling
factories.<span> </span>I never met a colleague there
for they are doing research in the Academy of Lagado up there over the clouds
in the Kingdom of Laputa. They are upon a project for extracting sunbeams out
of cucumbers, and when they will be done, they will write a paper and send it
to a peer-reviewed journal.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">So
then it occurred that I landed up in the Academy myself where I found my
colleagues teaching OR as it stood in 1950. Therefore I asked the math
chairman, to allow me to update the OR syllabus. And so it was, I changed the
matter over to Combinatorial Optimization. Hugo Scolnik and his wife Irene
Loiseau who were teaching the old stuff had to return to the Computer
Science dept where they belong.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Lo
and behold! Now Mrs Scolnik discovered herself Combinatorial Optimization
and is lecturing the subject in the Computer Science dept. The time is ripe to
replace the old fool. And so it was, with a sleight of hand Mr Scolnik made a
disappearing act and Fabio vanished into thin air.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">By
the way, did you know that the magician was a vice-president of IFORS?.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Cheers</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Fabio <br></span></p>
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