Subject: IGOR - the roots
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Igor is the name of every mad scientist's assistant in the old black
and white films; I remember when the program itself had a crazy
looking hunchback as it's icon ( no longer pc, I guess) . For an
illustration of this taken to extremes, see the Terry pratchett
discworld books, where everyones favourite assistant is an igor....

Sent from a phone, please forgive any terseness or mis-spelling.

On 10 Aug 2009, at 06:54, "Pesendorfer, Marc" <Marc_Pesendorfer at golder.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I will be teaching some courses in hydrogeology for the mining
> industry this fall and as an intense IGOR user I want to present the
> software as sort of a "State of the Art Data Analysis Tool"
> including practical examples with the audience. However, there are
> some questions, which surely will be asked and which I have
> (currently) no answer for:
>
> 1) What does the name "IGOR" stand for?
>
> 2) What is the history of IGOR? Who developed it, when (first
> official version) and for what purpose (spectrometry??) ?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help
>
> Regards, Marc
>
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