Re: In Honor of Richard L Thompson Sadaputa dasa prabhu

Some more information added. Sadaputa Dasa (Richard L. Thompson) was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1947. In 1974, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University, where he specialized in probability theory and statistical mechanics. He went on to do research in quantum physics and mathematical biology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and the La Jolla Institute in San Diego.

He is the author of seven books and the producer of six videos on science and philosophy, and he has written many articles for scientific journals and for Back To Godhead, the magazine of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

His most recent book, Maya: The World As Virtual Reality, introduces a theory that this world is actually a virtual reality, a theory which can accommodate empirical evidence for many phenomena that contemporary theories of consciousness cannot. His previous book, Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, discusses evidence of advanced astronomical knowledge in India�s ancient texts known as the Puranas.

He has designed exhibits using computer animation and multimedia techniques to present the Vedic cosmology and the Vedic world-view to the general populace, and he is presently writing a book discussing the laws of physics and the nature and origin of life.

Partial bibliography

Books

An Investigation into the Nature of Consciousness and Form (2006)
God and Science: Divine Causation and the Laws of Nature (2004)
Maya, the World as Virtual Reality (2003)
Mysteries of the Sacred Universe: The Cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana (2000)
The Hidden History of the Human Race (the condensed edition of Forbidden Archeology,) with Michael A. Cremo (1999)
Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Phenomena (1993)
Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy (1989)
Forbidden Archeology, with Michael A. Cremo (1993)
Computer simulations of self-organization in biological systems, with Narendra S Goel (1988)
Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science 1981
Demonstration by information theory that life cannot arise from matter (Bhaktivedanta Institute monograph series) 1977
Consciousness and the laws of nature (Bhaktivedanta Institute monograph series) (1977)

Technical articles

�Modelling an arm�s spatially correlated biases: an application to camera calibration for teleoperation,� with R. W. Daniel and David W. Murray (Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2005)

�Operator matching during visually aided teleoperation,� with P. R. McAree, R. W. Daniel, and David W. Murray (Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2005)

�Providing synthetic views for teleoperation using visual pose tracking in multiple cameras,� with Ian D. Reid, L. A. Mu�oz, and David W. Murray (IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2001)

�A snapshot of canopy reflectance models and a universal model for the radiation regime,� with Narendra S. Goel (Remote Sensing Review, 2000)

�Real-time Visual Recovery of Pose using Line Tracking in Multiple Cameras,� with David W. Murray and Ian D. Reid, <(Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, 1988)

�Simulation of cellular compaction and internalization in mammalian embryo development�II. Models for spherical embryos,� with Harold W. Lewis III and Narendra S. Goel (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 1988)

�Movable Finite Automata (MFA): A New Tool for Computer Modeling of Living Systems,� with Narendra S. Goel (Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems [ALIFE �87], (Los Alamos, New Mexico, September 1987)

�Simulation of cellular compaction and internalization in mammalian embryo development as driven by minimization of surface energy,� with Narendra S. Goel and Carlos F. Doggenweiler (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 1986)

�Optimal solar/viewing geometry for an accurate estimation of leaf area index and leaf angle,� with Narendra S Goel (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1985)

�Equilibrium states on thin energy shells� (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 1974)

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