Scoff not, ye of little faith! I hereby nominate Andrew Seary, for he actually
does remember the decent algorithm for complete eigendecomposition of
non-sparse adjacency matrices.

Carter T Butts wrote:

> ...on a (more?) humorous note, seeing the title of this thread in my mail
> browser almost made me wonder whether INSNA was instituting a new annual
> award.  "Mythic Heroes of CONNECTIONS," perhaps?  Or, better, yet, we
> could have new honorary titles, like "Master of Centrality," "High Lord of
> Structural Equivalence," or "(S)he Who Can Actually Remember A Decent
> Algorithm for Complete Eigendecomposition of Non-Sparse Adjacency
> Matrices."  (Well, OK, so I did say these were _mythic_ heroes, did I
> not?)
>
>      Sure, you scoff _now_, but think of how this would look on a tenure
> review.  We've all heard of candidates who walk on water, but who among
> the competition could claim to be hailed as a supernatural being?
>
>      -Carter

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Bill Richards