HOW TO GET THE STANDARDS

Do an anonymous FTP into bruno.cs.colorado.edu. The IP address is <128.138.243.151>

Eventually, it will be digital.resource.org.

You can also send mail to infoserve@bruno.cs.colorado.edu and put the word HELP in the body of the message. You'll get back instructions.

Who is BRUNO?

Giordano Bruno (1584-1600) was a member of the Dominican order. TheDominicans had kept alive the Greek secrets of memory, first perfectedby the poet Simonides of Ceos (c.556-468?B.C.). Before the printingpress, mnemonic methods for remembering verse or other forms ofknowledge were the only ways to pass that information on.

Bruno, after mastering the Dominican secrets, revealed them to therest of the world in his classic, Shadow of Ideas (1582). A notedadvocate of free thought, Bruno was accused by the Inquisition in 1592 of various acts of heresy, including making bad jokes about God. He was convicted and burned at the stake in 1600.