Zipf

[Rousseau Ronald]

Dear Colleagues,

Last December I presented a talk on Zipf's life and ideas during the
Beijing International Seminar of Quantitative Evaluation of R&D. If I
understood correctly, a Chinese translation will be published in the
conference proceedings. So for all of you who are impatient and/or can't
read Chinese just send me an e-mail with your postal address and you will
receive a copy of the talk.


Zipf died in 1950, so next year it will be exactly 50 years since he died.
Does anyone know of a conference or symposium devoted to Zipf on this
occasion? Zipf is not only important for our field, but also for
linguistics. Moreover I noticed that lately physicists use 'Zipf plots'
more and more. So an interdisciplinary symposium would be most wellcome.


Sincerely yours,

Ronald Rousseau


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Ronald Rousseau
dr mathematics, dr information science
Associate Professor
KHBO, Dep. Industrial Sciences and Technology
Zeedijk 101,  B-8400  Oostende Belgium
e-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be
  home:   ronald.rousseau at ping.be