Inman Harvey

A heavy sadness when someone utterly brilliant dies. Inman Harvey was the coolest person at Sussex. He looked at things in a different way, and was super influential for me and many others. He carried all this gently, always relaxed, generous, and never assuming he was right. He just seemed up for the adventure of trying things out.* * *I have very few photos of my DPhil days at Sussex, late 1980s and into the 1990s. I have this one paperclipped to the front of a research paper from August 1991. Inman is sitting on the grass at, first on the left-hand side. This was at the Isle of Thorns—Sussex University’s conference centre in the middle of nowhere—where postgrads would hang out for three days to present what they were up to.* * *I remember one project we did together. We entered the Santa Fe Double Auction Tournament around 1990. It was an automated trading challenge, and the attraction was trying out what we were working on. That, and the $10,000 prize money on offer.I cannot…