Friends and colleagues

A friend of many years standing, Stephen Atherton, has worked for Apple Australia for long enough to qualify as an Apple sage.

I've had a bit to do with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) over the years. One of my ventures there, as part of a project coordinated by John Barletta, was to analyse data from a marriage preparation instrument. John used to lecture on counselling and provide clinical supervision at ACU but has now resigned to run a private practice, complete with a very spiffy website.

Anthony Bloesch, a very bright computer scientist and friend while a postgraduate student at the University of Queensland, now works at Microsoft.

I've known Jonathan Dwyer since 1988 when we both did fourth year Psychology at the University of Queensland. He went on to do a PhD that focused on the limits of exploratory factor analysis techniques (by examining the numbers of factors, etc, produced under controlled conditions (central tendency, variance) under Monte Carlo randomisations of those datasets. Jonathan encouraged me to take up statistics tutoring, which eventually led to the work that I do nowadays. Jonathan, in contrast, after completing the PhD became interested in clinical work (therapising), and has worked as a therapist for some time now.

The websites of two other statistically and/or computer literate friends listed previously (Bill Wrigley & Geoff Smith) have been taken down.

Peter Grimbeek