[Leica] Karen Nakamura

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

That was also my first encounter with Karen.
I ran her software on an old Macbook 540C.


Regards,
George Lottermoser
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On Mar 28, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> Karen Nakamura has a wide variety of interests outside of  
> photography and
> photoethnography. I first learned of her when I was looking for a GPS
> navigation system for my boat that would run on a Mac laptop.  
> Macintosh
> computers on boats are apparently as rare as snakeskin covered Leicas.
> Sailors tend to be tradition bound and are wary of any newfangled  
> invention
> not referenced  in the 1800s Bowditch guide to navigation. A former
> colleague at Cornell told me of a small company, GPSy, that had  
> developed
> just such a program. I downloaded the program and, lo and behold,  
> it turned
> out to be written by one Karen Nakamura. This is a quote from the  
> info on
> the GPSy website:
>
> *"Karen Nakamura* is the original author of the GPSy? and GPSy Pro?
> software. She is a veteran Macintosh and Rhapsody programmer with  
> over 18
> years experience in C/C++ programming and was one of the first  
> NeXTStep
> programmers when it was released in 1989. First released in 1997,  
> GPSy and
> GPSy Pro were developed out of fieldwork tools in her anthropology
> dissertation project analyzing deaf communities in the United  
> States and
> Japan. In her other life, she is Assistant Professor of  
> Anthropology at Yale
> University."
>
> Although it is perfectly functional, I no longer use the program  
> because
> NOAA has released all US navigational charts for free and other  
> programs are
> easier to use. Apparently Karen has lost interest in it too. She  
> doesn't
> mention it or her computer background on her web site although she  
> still
> uses the Karen at GPSy.com e-mail address.
>
> Larry Z
>
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