About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Duncan J. Watts, Neil J. Gunther, Ronald N. Bracewell, Terence James Elkins, William Lawrence Bragg, Mark Oliphant, Leslie H. Martin, Rodney Marks, Grote Reber, Derek Abbott, Ruby Payne-Scott, John Clive Ward, Ronald Ernest Aitchison, Ernest William Titterton, Rodney Jory, Robert Hanbury Brown, William Sutherland, Denis Evans, Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Andrew G. White, Chris Wallace, Harrie Massey, Jeremy O'Brien, Keith Nugent, T. H. Laby, Kerr Grant, Richard Dalitz, Rodney Baxter, Rod Crewther, Alexander MacAulay, Victor Albert Bailey, George Handley Knibbs, Helen Quinn, Samuel L. Braunstein, Margaret Wertheim, Howard M. Wiseman, Michael A. O'Keefe, Debra Searles, Alexander R. Hamilton, Sean Cadogan, Ross H. McKenzie, Stuart Thomas Butler, Jose Enrique Moyal, Herbert Huppert, Henri Daniel Rathgeber, Geoff Wilson, Peter D. Jarvis, Richard Makinson, John M. Cowley, Harry Messel, David Blair, James Arthur Pollock, David Pegg, Gerasimos Danilatos, Ben Eggleton, Thomas Parnell, Leonard Huxley, Oleg Sushkov. Excerpt: Neil Gunther, (born 15 August 1950) is a computer information systems researcher best known internationally for developing the open-source performance modeling software Pretty Damn Quick and developing the Guerrilla approach to computer capacity planning and performance analysis. He has also been cited for his contributions to the theory of large transients in computer systems and packet networks, and his universal law of computational scalability. Gunther is a Senior Member of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), American Physical Society (APS), Computer Measurement Group (CMG) and ACM SIGMETRICS. He is currently focused on developing quantum information system tech...