Dr. James Cooke Brown

["Robert A. McIvor" <rmcivor@macsrule.com>]

	I was very saddened to hear of the death of Dr. Brown.  I was
privileged to have
known him personally as a friend and colleague, and my deepest sympathies
go to his wife and family.
	I first encountered Loglan in his original Scientific American
article, and, while I didn't follow it up, I was intrigued enough to keep
looking for further information, and when the first books were announced,
began studying it.  This led to programming some "Taste Tests" and the
first attempts at a machine grammar, and, as a result being invited to
visit him in San Diego in 1982.  At the time, neither of us had any idea of
what the other looked like, and I
remember standing in front of the bus depot in San Diego holding up a
Loglan publication, wondering if I was going to be chased out for
soliciting!  We were using some of the first personal computers, and a
grammar compilation with YACC took about 45 minutes.  Today
compiling a considerably larger grammar takes a fraction of a second on
current models.
	Subsequently, we spent many mornings together working on the
dictionary during two winters that I spent in a former private school that
he had built himself on his Gainesville property, the memory of which I
cherish deeply.
	He had devoted much time in recent years to a book proposing a
computer-based
economic system which had the potential of eliminating involuntary
unemployment, inflation,
and the need of economies to have continued growth at the expense of the
environment. A
sketchy version of this was in his futuristic novel "The Troika Incident".
He had been actively
engaged in recent months with potential publishers.  He had also another
book in mind, had
nature permitted.
	However, in recognition of his declining health, he took a couple
of months off each
year to fulfil ambitions to travel, with trips to Australia, China, Russia,
around North America,
and was engaged in a trip around South America at the time of his death.
	He will be greatly missed.