Pournelle

In 1994, Pournelle's friendly relationship with Newt Gingrich led to Gingrich securing a government job for Pournelle's son, Richard.

In 2010, his daughter Jennifer R. Pournelle (writing as J.R. Pournelle), an archaeology professor, e-published a novel Outies, an authorized sequel to the Mote in God's Eye series.

Pournelle: liberty-control, irrationalism-rationalism main This very distinct two-axis model was created by Jerry Pournelle in 1963 for his doctoral dissertation in political science.

Like Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven wrote, "evolution in action".

He has also used "Pournelle's law" to apply to the importance of checking cable connections when diagnosing computer problems.

Humorist Dave Barry has fun with Pournelle's guru column in Byte magazine in Dave Barry in Cyberspace.

Iron Law of Bureaucracy Pournelle has suggested several "laws".

It was Jerry Pournelle with an idea for a funny, frank (and sometimes irascible) series of articles to be presented in BYTE on a semi-regular (i.

Jerry Pournelle in 1986 explained why he wanted a kill file for BIX : citation whereas an open computer conference begins with a small number of well-informed and highly interested participants, it soon attracts others.

Jerry Pournelle wrote in 1980 that "the basic TRS-80 is a lot of computer for the money.

Pournelle concluded, "I think I'll pass up the opportunity to become a born-again True BASIC believer.

Pournelle criticized the quality of Tandy's application and system software—including the "needlessly complex" TRSDOS—and high cost of its peripherals.

Pournelle goes into some detail; the study was classified.

Pournelle opposed both Gulf Wars, maintaining that the money would be better spent developing energy technologies for the United States.

Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.

Pournelle stated that This will be a column by and for computer users, and with rare exceptions I won't discuss anything I haven't installed and implemented here in Chaos Manor.

Pournelle's work in the aerospace industry includes time he worked at Boeing in the late-1950s.

Pournelle was later named Executive Assistant to the Mayor in charge of research in September 1969, but resigned from the position after two weeks.

Pournelle was one of the few close friends of H. Beam Piper and was granted by Piper the rights to produce stories set in Piper's Terro-Human Future History.

Pournelle worked for some years on a sequel to Space Viking but seems to have abandoned this in the early 1990s, however John F. Carr intends its completion for release in 2018.