From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9983 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Espinosa Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: only_marketing_? Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:16:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: David Espinosa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="72689"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: Categories list Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Aug 13 20:38:17 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.55]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hxbgW-000IiO-Ma for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 20:38:16 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:38608) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hxbfQ-0003FV-0e; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:37:08 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hxbei-0007LF-49 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:36:24 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9983 Archived-At: John Baez wrote, "some companies are starting to hire people in applied category theory". Actually, IBM hired Joe Goguen in 1971: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~goguen/pps/beatcs-adj.ps And engineers at Galois Inc (founded 1999) and Kestrel Technologies (founded 2000) have been using category theory in industry for quite some time. I'm sure there are many other examples. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]