http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x242.htm ; > I stand by my claim that Ivor Catt is a genius. And
> that he has been extraordinarily censored. – Post, (co-author with Feynman.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra One of the most influential figures of computing science's founding generation, Dijkstra helped shape the new discipline from both an engineering and a theoretical perspective.^[11]^[12] His fundamental contributions cover diverse areas of computing science, including compiler construction, operating systems, distributed systems, sequential and concurrent programming, programming paradigm and methodology, programming language research, program design, program development, program verification, software engineering principles, graph algorithms, and philosophical foundations of computer programming and computer science. Many of his papers are the source of new research areas. Several concepts and problems that are now standard in computer science were first identified by Dijkstra or bear names coined by him.^[13]^[14] As a foremost opponent of the mechanizing view of computing science, he refuted the use of the concepts of 'computer science' and 'software engineering' as umbrella terms for academic disciplines.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x5a6.htm 1982 I enjoyed myself thanks to the presence of C.Bron, S.D.Swierstra (who moderated the panel discussion) and B.Waumans, people I know for years but whom I encounter only rarely. The highlight, however, was being introduced to Mr. Ivor Catt, whom I had never met in person, though I knew very well who he was.

By virtue of his involvement, Catt knows all the ins and outs of one of the major scientific scandals of the last 15 years, viz. the systematic suppression in the world of electronics of all publications about the phenomenon of the so-called glitch and its ramifications. Part of Catt has turned to the study of what one might call the sociology of science or the scientific establishment's mechanisms for the rejection of novel results. The story how once --on false accusations made at a secret meeting-- he had got immediate notice because it was thought mandatory that no one in the company, nor any of the company's --mostly military-- customers, should know of the glitch was typical.

(In EWD837 I mentioned Melliar-Smith's lecture on the fault-tolerant operating system designed for "flight control". One of the things it has been designed to capture is a malfunctioning caused by a glitch. In order to estimate the MTBF of the whole system, its designers needed to know the likelihood of a glitch, a figure the hardware designers have to provide. Today I heard that the electronic engineers of Bendix --the company manufacturing the hardware for the flight control system-- had been so well-conditioned that the glitch problem could not even be explained to them. I am not amazed.)

“The Glitch” is in http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x59596.htm

http://www.async.org.uk/David.Kinniment/DJKinniment-He-Who-Hesitates-is-Lost.pdf

They did not believe a problem existed, and if it did, they didn’t want to know.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x59596.htm Decline of Science

X84gglitch.docx

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x84gglitch.pdf ; 1966

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x1bn.pdf ; Computer Worship, 1973

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/em_pref.htm

“It was as I reflected on this that I 'saw' that a capacitor was in fact a transmission line and the whole universe began to turn itself inside out with the transmission line becoming the fundamental primitive while other concepts such as inductance, capacitance, and mutual inductance were constructed from it.” – Dr D S Walton, 1976.

http://www.ivorcatt.org/icrwiworld78dec1.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x3b2.pdf

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0309.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/yak.htm “ …. a capacitor is a transmission line ” – 2018

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x55j.htm

· ".... Ivor Catt, an innovative thinker whose own immense ability in electronics has all too often been too far ahead of conventional ideas to be appreciated: significantly, Catt is beginning to get some high-level backing from companies who see the possibility of major breakthroughs from his work ('Wafers herald new era in computing', New Scientist, 25 February 1989)." - New Scientist, 25nov89, p75.