From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 44cce958 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6F852A1E3F; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:45:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2FD9E6F2; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:44:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id F072F9E708; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:16:58 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 458 seconds by postgrey-1.35 at minnie.tuhs.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:16:58 AEST Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E0889E6F2 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:16:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: by sdaoden.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A121C1604A; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:09:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:10:17 +0200 From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: Clem Cole Message-ID: <20181016161017.iKPHz%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: References: <20181016143911.6BDB618C08D@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Clem Cole , Noel Chiappa , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.11-74-g81992547 OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [TUHS] Another one (Was: In memoriam: Jon Postel) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society , Noel Chiappa Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Clem Cole wrote in : |+1 I have indeed watched "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing"[1] again today, at least in parts, after i heard that Paul Allen died. And John Postel died exactly twenty years ago, i have read his name a thousand times. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DGjZ7ktIlSM0 |On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:40 AM Noel Chiappa <[1]jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.ed\ |u[/1]> wrote: | | [1] mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu | ||=C2=A0 =C2=A0 > From: Dave Horsfall | ||=C2=A0 =C2=A0 > We lost ... on this day | ||An email from someone on a related topic has reminded me of someone \ ||else you ||should make sure is only your list (not sure if you already have him): ||J. C. R. Licklider; we lost him on June 26, 1990. | ||He didn't write much code himself, but the work of people he funded (e.g. ||Doug Engelbart, the ARPANet guys, Multics, etc, etc, etc) to work on his ||vision has led to today's computerized, information-rich world. For \ ||people who ||only know today's networked world, the change from what came before, \ ||and thus ||his impact on the world (since his ideas and the work of people he \ ||sponsored ||led, directly and indirectly, to much of it), is probably hard to truly ||fathom. | ||He is, in my estimation, one of the most important and influential \ ||computer ||scientists of all. I wonder how many computer science people had more \ ||of an ||impact; the list is surely pretty short. Babbage; Turing; who else? | ||=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Noel --End of --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)