User:Poslfit
My name is John Chew and you can find out more about me at http://www.poslfit.com.
I have lived in Toronto since 1966, except for a few years in Japan, France, and Mexico.
You may have come across my name in the following contexts.
- I have written four peer-reviewed mathematical papers about geometry and about meta-Fibonacci sequences.
- I am a descendant of the same 17th century Virginia colonist John Chew as the 18th century Philadelphia lawyer Benjamin Chew, but not descended from Benjamin.
- I was an 11-time contestant on the The New Quiz Kids.
- I won the Canadian Mathematical Olympiad in 1981, and won a silver medal for the first team to represent Canada at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1981 in Washington.
- I won the first Toronto Rubik's Cube championship in 1981.
- I created and edited the Inter-Network Mail Guide, an early reference work for the pre-web Internet, mentioned inter alia in IETF RFC 1175.
- I was the 2021 recipient of the Peter Gzowski Award.
- Since 2022, I have been involved in a Canadian lexicography project, and spoken on the subject at the American Dialect Society and Editors' Association of Canada meetings in 2023; I am not a linguist, but am a son of the Canadian anthropological linguist John J. (Jack) Chew, Jr.
- I am involved in competitive Scrabble in many ways, including
- being head of NASPA Games
- having organized, directed or helped run every top-level English-language tournament in North America, England, Malta, South Africa, Thailand and the world
- having a Swiss pairing system named for me
- being the editor of the NASPA Word List
- coheld for many the competitive record for highest-scoring game ending in a tie (at 502)
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