Richard Shoup

My latest adventure is a non-profit research lab called the Boundary Institute that I founded in 2000 with engineer/psychologist Dean Radin. We have some new ideas about computation and physics, a handle on some anomalous phenomena, and much more. I'm not kidding. This is the most exciting science I've ever been involved in. (If you would like to know more, and especially if you would consider helping fund some very forward-looking research, please contact me.)

I worked at Interval Research in Palo Alto from February 1993 until its sudden closing in April 2000. Someday I will write something about the amazing goings-on and my experiences at this innovative place. It was perhaps even more interesting than Xerox PARC, but in the end less successful.

From December 1970 to October 1979 I was privileged to work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (recently spun off and renamed PARC Inc). You can read about those great times in Mike Hiltzik's book Dealers of Lightning. Here are some pages on the SuperPaint videographics system I built at PARC in the early '70s, and for which I was fortunate to win some awards.

Check out my web site about Laws of Form, a small but powerful book of mathematics by George Spencer-Brown that has influenced me greatly.

Some of my publications are available here, and the whole sordid story is in my résumé and a short bio.

You can contact me by email: rgshoup at rgshoup.com or rshoup at boundary.org.