Applied Scientist at Fermilab Computing Division, Data Communications Department doing New Technology Investigations (the Technology group)
E-mail:
nagy@fnal.gov
(or f.nagy@sbcglobal.net or fjn@frank-nagy.net)
Phone:
630-840-4935
FAX:
630-840-8208
Office:
Feynman
358 (currently)
Transfer to my Personal Home Page.
Go to pages with pictures of my cats and Pixel's new house (setup and provided by Al Thomas).
I graduated in 1971 with B.S. in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon
University and
received a PhD in Physics in 1980 from California Institute of
Technology.
Thesis titled:
A Study of the
Reactions 
and 
at 
=14
GeV/c
using a Triggered Hybrid Bubble Chamber.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
"When the end of the world is near, spend the remaining time in a bar."
Jack L. Chalker, from And the Devil Will Drag You Under
Current
(probably incomplete)
list of publications
Current (probably incomplete) list of internal Fermilab publications
Notes on PingER host system and software
Started at Fermilab in January 1980 with the Accelerator
Controls
Group.
Worked on RFP for new control system, ACNET. Designed network
protocol for ACNET and major contributor to many other aspects of the
design
of ACNET. System manager for central VAX systems.
Transferred to Research Division, Beam Line Controls Group.
Design and implementation of EPICURE, new beam line controls system.
Transferred to Computing Division at its creation.
Distributed Computing Department as sole member of Special Projects
Group. Later group leader of SPG. We implemented
the FNAL
central
mail gateway and the FNPRT central print server, supported printers
during
major phase-in of laser printers, system administration of the FNDCD
local
area VAXcluster and the FNBEE and FNBOP console systems.
Took over as group leader of the Distributed Computing Group which
became the VMS Systems Support group when the Operating Systems Support
department was split off from DCD. Became group leader of
CDF/D0
Systems Support Group which evolved out of the VSS group. Currenting in
the
Technology Group in the Data Communications Department.
Plays with toys...
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