Gary Edward John Bold (1938 – 3 July 2018)[1] was a New Zealand physicist, as of 2009[update] an Honorary Associate Professor in physics at the University of Auckland.
[5] Early in his teaching career Bold realised that to be an effective lecturer he needed to develop his verbal skills so that the sessions were interesting for the students.
[6]: p.12 Tom Barnes, University of Auckland Deputy Vice-chancellor (Research) at the time, claimed that Bold taught him how to teach and because "his knowledge [was] encyclopaedic and his enthusiasm boundless...[his]... lecture preparation [was] simply the best I have ever come across."
Barnes added that Bold had a commitment to his students that went beyond the lecture hour and "time and again I have seen him surrounded at the end by a group of animated young people eager to bounce ideas off him and know more.
"[6]: p.12 Bold co-authored an article in the Marine Technology Society Journal that summarises the work of the New Zealand group in the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) programme from 1991 to 1996.
The research concludes that it is possible to calculate the "distribution of power near the antipode of an HF transmitter", and factors such as "frequency fluctuations" can be included into a realistic model.
[9]: p.136 A paper co-authored by Bold in 1986, showed evidence that when a system is broken down into its compositional parts, (top down approach) ray tracing is accurate and easy to apply.
[11] A study in 2009 used EEG to measure simultaneous occurrence at two electrode sites of brainwaves within a broad frequency band, and notes "episodic global phase synchrony" [is] widely identified.
The paper published in 2011 and co-authored by Bold, said in the introduction that the concept had been around a long time and the question asked was whether an individual's consciousness could be a "series of "discrete chunks or perceptual moments...[similar to]... cinematographic frames".
[13] Data from waking and unconscious people were gathered to compare the "frequency of local minima in the analytic power (AP) using intracranial EEG (ECoG)."
The results indicated that local minima in AP could have acted as a "shutter", and that consciousness may be discontinuous because of the consequence of oscillations that are widely found in nature, and "not due to some specifically biological factor".
"[15] Bold - known at the time as Morseman - is credited with writing the software for TeachMorse, a Windows application that provided a means of playing practice text at different speeds.