Hi Colin, I was there as a freshly minted PhD about to go to my first academic job at University of Chicago. What i most vividly remember was Eilenberg, sitting in the center near the front, constantly asking smart questions, which did not necessarily help the speaker; and in particular, of course, i remember this during my talk on automata and recursion in cartesian closed categories. Frankly, i was a bit shocked at the level of competitiveness that i felt in the institute, no doubt my naivety showing, after spending laid back years at Berkeley. Joseph Goguen
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I am interested in any stories about the 1969 Summer Institute at Bowdoin. Who was there?
In particular,the Reports of the Midwest Category Seminar IV (SLN 137) has a humor piece written as a ``final exam'' for the Institute. It is signed ``Phreilambud.'' Who is this? I can make it up out of various people's names, but I don't know who was there.
Colin