[Pw_forum] a question about the name ESPRESSO

[Stefano Baroni]

PS: the one hiding himself behind the camera is Roberto Car

On May 4, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Nicola Marzari wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear L F Huang,
> 
> Trieste (where the code originates) is the main shipping port in Italy 
> for coffee
> imports, and the city has a long tradition of coffee houses and of 
> coffee producers
> (the beans themselves are grown elsewhere).
> 
> The most famous of these companies is "Illy", that is extremely tech savy -
> this below is an article that the company founder wrote a few years ago 
> for "Scientific
> American": http://www.podmerchant.com/coffee/complexity-of-coffee.pdf
> 
> What might intrigue you is that we invented the name while waiting in
> Beijing airport a flight to Xi'an - we were in Beijing for a summer school
> at the institute of physics (2004), and we decided to spend the weekend in
> the old capital.
> 
> Here is the team at work - I believe Shobhana, Ralph and Carlo are
> missing, among those that were there :
> http://quasiamore.mit.edu/personal/xian/espresso.jpg
> 
>            nicola
> 
> 
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