Deacon John
Go Players in the North Carolina triad area:
- Please contact me at "deaconjohnwinstonsalem@gmail.com".
- Or meet me at
The Triad Area Go Club.
- The three triad cities are Winston-Salem, Greensborough, and High Point.
A Few Facts
- Nickname: dj
- Residence: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- KGS Account Names: DeaconJohn, djWarmUp, djCoolDown, dj5to15
- Am indeed a deacon in the ACNA, the Anglican Church in North America
- Have 7 grandchildren.
- Interests: soccer, go, network security, languages and linguistics, quantum physics, math
- Member of Les Blues
A Little History
- 1946: born
- 1962: 35k
- 1967: married
- 1969: masters in mathematics from NYU, Greenwich Village, New York
- 1972: phd in mathematics from LSU Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- 1973: math professor at UofR, Rochester, New York
- 1979: moved to Fairfax, Virginia.
- 1985: 1d aga
- 2004: ordained as an anglo-catholic deacon
- 2005: traumatic brain injury (sports accident)
- 2008: ~11k kgs
- 2008: moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- 2009: 8k kgs
- 2010: 7k kgs
More About Me
Play regularly on the KGS server. Am often in the KTL or the EGR.
Do a lot of KGS help page editing.
My KGS "user information" page has a picture of me and other miscellaneous information.
Am a mathematician: professional, amateur, and PhD.
Areas of special interst:
1) Pure Mathmatics: Hilbert space theory, C* and W* algebras, functional analysis, real and complex analysis, algebraic and differential topology, algebraic geometry.
2) Applied Mathmatics: Galois theory, Ito integral calculus, Bayesian probability theory and statistics, artificial intelligence, data mining, signal processing, decision theory, radio frequency (RF) engineering, communication satellites, communication network engineering, network security, cryptograpy, quantum cryptology, social network theory, computational linguistics, orbit mechanics, quantum reality, quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, string theory.
Am a research scientist at MITRE in the Communications Network Engineering & Analysis Department. Currently on leave.
Web Pages
- a little known goldmine of information:
http://www.weiqiok.com/asp/English.asp
- ckg's, dsaun, jyem's, Salutation and my DeaconJohn kgs "user information" pages
- Salutation has greetings and farewells for go games in many languages.
- a poor man's index to the kgs help pages:
http://www.gokgs.com/help/allPages.html?helpLocale=de_DE
Commented Game Collections
- Alexandre Dinerchtein:
http://www.go4go.net/v2/modules/alex
- GoGameWorld:
http://www.gogameworld.com/
- Unofficial AGA archive:
http://www.hilltopgo.com/agej/games.html
- Korean Insei League:
http://www.361points.com/kifu_sorin/