I would also like to congratulate Nigel on his impressive work as researcher and as Professor, because good professors teach, but the best inspire... and Nigel has inspired and bolster a complete academic community
All the best
Josema
http://josema.galan.name
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De: News and discussion about computer simulation in the social sciences [mailto:[log in to unmask]] En nombre de N Paramesh
Enviado el: miércoles, 5 de noviembre de 2014 19:32
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Asunto: Re: [SIMSOC] A salute to Nigel Gilbert
This idea of party is good.
Why not we also organize to present a gift at the party?
People all over the world may (feel free to) contribute.
It can be a skype party or some such thing.
N Paramesh
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Klaus Jaffe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I second the idea for a party
>
> Klaus Jaffe Carbonell
> atta.labb.usb.ve/Klaus/klaus.htm
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> El 11/5/2014 a las 9:20 AM, Penn, Alan escribió:
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> Not an obituary - but perhaps we should have a party all the same?
>
> Alan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing
> Dean
> The Bartlett
> UCL Faculty of the Built Environment
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> tel. +44( 0)20 3108 9138
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> www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk
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> On 5 Nov 2014, at 11:11, Flaminio Squazzoni <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> having the honour to succeed him as JASSS editor, I must say a couple of
> words.
> Being the past book review editor of JASSS, I always tried to estimate the
> amount of effort Nigel was putting to manage this journal. However, after
> starting to work a couple of weeks ago in the editor’s position, now I have
> a more precise idea. Believe me, guys, you can’t even imagine. I am shocked
> when considering that he did this for many years, while in the meantime
> establishing a research centre (CRESS), supervising a high number of PhD.
> students, winning an impressive number of big EU projects, doing research,
> leading ESSA for some years etc.
>
> Now, we tend to measure scientists’ prestige through H-index and other
> bibliometric indicators. Nigel is a brilliant example of the fact that there
> is something else, though his impact is also impressive looking at these
> indicators, to be clear. No one else has served the cause of social
> simulation and our community like him. I guess this is the meaning of this
> exchange of emails.
>
> This is to say that there is no another Nigel and there won’t be in JASSS.
> We can only learn from his example and try modestly to getting as close as
> possible to his standards. This is what I will try to do, together with the
> other members of the board who share with me this new adventure.
>
> Given that this is not an obituary (I can imagine Nigel reading these
> emails.. luckily, he is not Italian and a bit superstitious! ), I take the
> chance to say that Nigel will continue to serve the cause of JASSS in his
> past editor's role and we will always ask his opinion on important matters
> for the journal development.
> Best
> Flaminio
>
> 2014-11-05 11:05 GMT+01:00 Klaus G. Troitzsch <[log in to unmask]>:
> Although all of us in the social simulation community owe Nigel much more
> than JASSS, we should not forget that he devoted much of his time and effort
> for a huge of amount of web programming and manually editing submissions
> which more often than not did not comply with the standards of our journal.
> There are not so many in academia who are willing to do typesetters' and
> copy editors' work. Hence it is his merit to have kept JASSS going with his
> own hands and never missing the date of publication of the next issue. And
> what is more than surprising is that this kind of work never prevented him
> from contributing to social science simulation research (which is once more
> clear from the table of contents of the current issue). We will miss his
> devotion for the day-to-day management of JASSS but we are full of hope that
> he will continue his roles as project leader, thesis supervisor, summer
> academy teacher, keynote speaker, and reviewer for JASSS.
>
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> Institut für Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsinformatik
> Universität Koblenz-Landau
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