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I see no ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra One of the most influential figures of computing science's founding generation, Dijkstra

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.

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Clearly it was the same problem as Catt’s and they were annoyed that Catt had succeeded in publishing in a recognised journal first – even before they had produced their own internal document. Their work ‘beware the synchronizer’ did not in fact appear until 1973, because Chaney and Littlefield had had considerable difficulty persuading the reviewers to accept their paper, referees would say things like “if this was a problem, I would have heard about it. I haven’t so I don’t think it exists”. It was only after a special Workshop on Synchronizer failures was held by Charles Molnar, Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory of Washington University, St Louis to publicise the work that there was any acceptance of the existence of the problem in the US.

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4. Now about the 'glitch' for which you seem to imply there has been a conspiracy to block publications about it and this is an example of the problems you claim to address. It happens that I can say some things about that from first hand experience and I believe that completely disproves your assertions. I dimly remember reading your brief letter about the 'glitch' in an IEEE Computer journal in 1966?) - and I am sure that I did not understand it then. However, in 1987 when I went to British Aerospace Army Weapons Division, investigation of the 'glitch' (e.g. metastability in flip flops) was about the first thing that I was asked to look into, and after some work on that I also realised that the same problem applied to multiprocessor arbiters.

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I see no sign of your claims that the 'scientific establishment' is trying to block publication in this area. There may be plagiarism, there may be burying of simple concepts in obscure mathematics, and so on, but that is not the same as your accusations.

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The McCutchen and MacRoberts articles about censorship had not been written. The McCutchen article; “An evolved conspiracy” [12], was published in 1976, and the MacRoberts article, [13] "The Scientific Referee System" , was published in 1980.

Aged only 31, I should not have yet known there were barriers to communication in high technology, but I did give my article a misleading title so that my Peer Reviewers would not realise how serious the problem, which they probably would not understand,

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Catt “.... Ivor Catt (born 1935) is a British electronics engineer known principally for his alternative theories of electromagnetism.^[1] He received a B.A. degree from Cambridge University, and has won the Electronic Design magazine's "best product of the year" award on 26 October 1989, after £16 million funding.” Always rejected for publication by the IEE and IEEE.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/3ewk.htm always rejected for publication by the IEE and IEEE. It seems similar to the computer the Met is currently buying for £1 billion.

https://jehovajah1.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/on-a-theory-of-electromagnetism/

Parasites do not understand the true purpose of the organism they invade, and in the end destroy. Since they lack understanding, it is not clear whether parasites are charlatans. Of course, it is clear that Pepper is a charlatan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0l1diFGxIg ; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x67d.htm

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 http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x8cktony.htm “adopt them, though, perhaps, in a somewhat sneaking manner,

not unmixed with bluster, and make believe he knew all about it when he was a little boy.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3e99/5b63c7e879cb598f12c9f8558fb99f0be341.pdf 1999; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/tonyglitch1.pdf

REFERENCES

[1] L.R. Marino “General Theory of Metastable operation”, IEEE Trans., C-30, pp. 107-115, 1981

[2] A. C. Davies “Analysis of Metastable Dynamics of Bistable Flip-flops”, Proc. 6th Int. Symp. on Networks, Systems and Signal Processing , Zagreb, Yugoslavia, pp. 379-382, June 1989

[3] I. Catt “Time loss through gating of asynchronous logic signal pulses” IEEE Trans., EC-15, pp. 108- 111, 1966 [4] T.J. Chaney

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“Physics Education” is a journal of the Institute of Physics.

Recently this journal attacked and misrepresented me, and the editor refused to publish a reply by me. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x311a.htm . He was later overruled by the head of the IoP. I was too busy trying (and failing http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x121.htm ) to get Tony Davies to help me to publish in the IEEE, to pursue the IoP matter immediately. Now the editor of “Physics Education” blocks my emails. It is fascinating to see that the Howie email to me (see below) says the opposite of what he thinks he says. It feeds directly into Mccutchen; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x311a.htm

The referees repay the establishment by suppressing new discoveries. It is not necessary that either side understand the arrangement. - Dr Charles McCutchen [1]

Are professors, editors, referees and text book writers behaving unethically?

They (Howie and Davis) (think they) cover their tracks by criticising the system for blocking scientific advance which they themselves operate.

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It is sad that during the ensuing 40 years [now 60 years - IC] the New York IEEE and the London IEE prevented me from informing electronic engineers that they did not have to add “high frequency” decoupling capacitors to their logic boards, that the 1uF would do perfectly well on its own. This obstruction has cost the industry many millions of pounds. However, a bolshie IEEE and a bolshie IEE cost us a lot more than that in other ways. Ivor Catt 22apr02

Today, 3.3.2020, the IEEE continue to publish peer (consensus) reviewed articles discussing how to measure the (non-existent) self-resonant frequency of a capacitor. Tony Davies will do nothing to help me to inform IEEE members, or say he is unable to help, or tell me whom to approach in the IEEE to correct the record.

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