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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Personal - Mike Hewett</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>Mike Hewett - Up Close and Personal</H1>Let's see, I'm kind of laid-back, but I also enjoy competition very much.I relax by <a HREF="#reading">reading</a> or <aHREF="#thinking">thinking</a>. I'm not especially artistic, but I do playthe piano and the guitar. <a HREF="#VanGogh">Van Gogh</a>'s paintings and<a HREF="#Wright"> Frank Lloyd Wright</a>'s houses and rooms interest me,as do numerous <a HREF="#music">musical artists</a>. Someday I'd like todesign my own house. Over the years, I have learned to appreciate good <aHREF=#food>food</a>.<p>Some of my personal heroes are Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and DonKnuth. All have a tremendous intellect, impeccable personal andprofessional integrity, and a profound moral conscience. Over the years,several teachers had a positive influence on my life. I admire those whoare good at teaching and guiding students.<H2><A NAME="Competition">Competition</A></H2>As I said above, I enjoy competition. A couple of competitions I haveentered have been the KME National Mathematics Competition and theACM Scholastic Programming Contest. <p>KME (Kappa Mu Epsilon) is a national mathematics honor society, whosemembership consists mainly of small universities. Every two years theyhave a national convention and hold a mathematical paper competitionin conjunction with the competition. In 1979, while an undergraduateat Washburn University, I developed a mathematical methods forcomposing music. It used stochastic processes to generate musicaltunes based on a composer's known style. The results were reasonablyinteresting and my paper was awarded First Place in the competition.I now know that stochastic methods for composing music were discoveredin the 1600's, so the methods I thought I had invented were not new.Nevertheless, it was an interesting bit of research.<p>ACM holds an International Scholastic Programming Contest in conjunctionwith the Computer Science Conference (CSC) every Spring. In 1985, whilea graduate student at Stanford, I formed a team that went on to win theProgramming Competition that year. This was the first team that Stanfordevery fielded, and Stanford has since maintained a very high standardin the competition, winning it several more times since 1985. One unique thing about Stanford's teams is that they form and compete without any faculty assistance.<H2><A NAME="reading">Reading</A></H2>These are some of my favorite books:<ul><li>Temple, George (1981). <i>100 Years of Mathematics</i>, Springer-Verlag.<li>ACM (1987). <i>ACM Turing Award Lectures, 1966-1985</i>, ACM Press.<li>Knuth, Donald E. (1992). <i>Literate Programming</i>, CSLI Lecture Notes; No. 27. ISBN 9-9370-7380-6.</ul><H2><A NAME="thinking">Deep Thoughts by Mike Hewett</A></H2><P><ul><li> Preparation is the key to success.<li> No amount of preparation will allow you to succeed over a sufficiently prepared competitor with greater natural talent.<li> Figure out what you are best at and concentrate on that area.That will lead to success and, hopefully, happiness.<li> The older I get, the harder it is to believe that none of the crack investigative reporters on the Daily Planet staff can figure out thatClark Kent is Superman.</ul><H2><A NAME="VanGogh">Vincent Van Gogh</A></H2><H2><A NAME="Wright">Frank Lloyd Wright</A></H2><H2><A NAME="music">Musical Artists</A></H2><H2><A NAME="food">Food</A></H2><H2>Pictures</H2><p>Some pictures for your enjoyment:<p><H3>Allie</H3>This is my daughter Allie -- <a href="allie-4.jpg"><img align=middle src="allie-small.gif"> click to enlarge (165K)</a><p><a href="allie-dino.gif">Allie at the dinosaur exhibit.</a> Zilker Park, Austin, Texas, USA. May 1994 (260K)<p><a href="allie-fish.gif">Allie's first fish.</a> West of Bryan, Texas, USA. May 1994 (75K)<p><H3>Texas</H3><a href="big-cow.gif">They grow 'em big in Texas.</a> Caldwell, Texas, USA. August 1993 (170K)<p> <p>Every couple of months I organize another "Mike's Hike", where we go tosome interesting part of Texas not too far from Austin and hike. In theprocess we usually have some misadventure. Here are some pictures fromthe previous hikes.<p><H4>Mike's Hike #1: Enchanted Rock</H4>Enchanted Rock is a granite dome about 90 miles west of Austin. You can<a href="ench-up.jpg">walk to the top</a> and <a href="ench-top.jpg">see for miles</a>.Once wemade it to the top, Naren spotted what he thoughtwas a good restaurant, while Jun used the binoculars to hunt for his car keys.No wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. That part came later.After exploring the top of the rock, we started working our way <a href="ench-down.jpg">down</a>, which was quite exciting.<p>Later that night we managed to lock Jun's keys in the trunk of his car,a Geo Prism, which proved absolutely impossible to break into. TheAAA guy had never seen anything like it. We ended up staying at EnchantedRock past sundown, watching the stars come out and eating pizza in themoonlight while Johannes' roommate brought us a spare key all the wayfrom Austin. We'll have to make a trip for German food some other time,Johannes!<p><H4>Mike's Hike #2: Pedernales Falls</H4>This trip started out with a minor <a href="cars.jpg">car accident</a> beforewe even left the UT campus. Marty's beloved 1973 Mustang suffered adented front left panel. Once we made it to the State Park, we had<a href="pedernales.jpg">fun hiking</a> even though the temperaturereached 103 degrees. After hiking we rushed back to the PedernalesRiver and sat in the river, which was also very hot.<p><H4>Mike's Hike #3: Barton Creek, er, Natural Bridge Caverns</H4>It rained 8 inches in Austin the night before the hike, so when we<a href="hike3-group.jpg">met before the hike</a> [L->R: Jun, Coquis,Marty, Johannes, Keiko, Mike, Sowmya, Bala, Stephen, Naren] we decidedto do an "indoor hike" instead. We ended up at Natural Bridge Caverns nearNew Braunfels, which has some very nice <a href="nbc-formations.jpg">stalactites and stalagmites</a>. The highlight of the tour came whenthe tour guide asked us if we were a "Geology Club or something". Apparentlythe questions we asked had more content than your average cave tourist.After the hike the guide stayed behind with us and answered more ofour questions.<p>Our usual car problem surfaced, this time in my car. It startedhiccuping halfway to the cave and stopped running for a while. Eventuallyit started again and we made it without further problems. Just alittle reminder from God.<p>After our cave tour we <a href="dinner3.jpg">ate lunch/dinner</a>at Krause's Cafe, a wonderful German restaurant in New Braunfels that makes theirown desserts. Several people had cheesecake, while I had the "Magnificent 7"cake, featuring seven different kinds of chocolate. After dinner westaggered over to the outlet mall in San Marcos and visited about 10 of the 110 shops, ending with a coffee session at a nearby spot.<p><H3>America</H3><a href="mike-rainier.gif">Mike and niece at Mt. Rainier.</a> Southeast of Seattle, Washington, USA. June, 1993 (180K)<p><a href="sf-pofa.gif">Detail at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts.</a> San Francisco, California, USA. October, 1988 (80K)<p><H3>World</H3>Coming soon!<HR><ADDRESS><B>Author: </B><A HREF="index.html"><I>Micheal S. Hewett</I></A><BR><B>Email: </B><I>hewett@cs.utexas.edu</I><BR><B>Last Updated: </B><I>Monday, April 17, 1995</I></ADDRESS></BODY></HTML>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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