From: Timothy Newsham 
  To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.blackdown.org
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 20:48:18 -1000 (HST)

Hi,

   I typed this in from section on a grad school booklet describing
the professor.  

                                        Tim N.

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Currently, his principal research project involves the construction and
programming of a vaguely parallel computer, consisting of 32 steam-powered
Turing machines installed in the basement of Sieg Hall.  Of particular
interest is the use of triple-expansion bypass valves, coupled to
invididual governors on each engine, to achieve write-synchronization of
the machines.  Graduate students have played an important role in the 
construction of the engine, particularly in stoking the boilers, and
advanced undergraduates are occasionally allowed to polish the brass
guages.
Originally intended as a general computing engine, restrictions imposed by
the Pollution Control and Noise Abatement Boards require that only 
algorithms running in polynomial time may be used.  The project recently
suffered another setback when on of Professor Ruzo's graduate students
slipped on a mouldering stack of ungraded homework exercises and
fell under the write head of one of the machines.  Now permanmently
embossed with a series of 1's and 0's, the student is suing to have the 
machine dismantled.