[ Apologies if you've already seen this elsewhere. ] We lost George on March 18, 2026. Much of the world only knows him for his experiments with rapid (*extremely* rapid) BBQ grill ignition, and those were impressive [1]; but the work that he did at the Purdue Engineering Computer Network was much more germane to this mailing list. George and Mike Marsh came up with the "Purdual" 2-CPU VAX, which was the first multiprocessor Unix system; and along with other folks in EE department, he built one of the first Unix networks. He did all kinds of work with DEC and Sun and UCBerkeley and everyone who was anyone in the Unix world...and I once watched him casually twiddling bits in kernel memory space with adb on a running multiuser system. He did not make a mistake. Of course not. George was an incredibly smart guy who could have easily gone somewhere else and made a fortune, but he stayed at Purdue...and as a result, tens of thousands of students and faculty and staff benefitted from his work. "Brilliant" and "dedicated" are sometimes overused words; but not this time. ---rsk [1] I was present for some of those, as George escalated from hair dryers to liquid oxygen, and recalled that there were scientists at Los Alamos who were concerned that a nuclear detonation might ignite the atmosphere. After watching a $15 K-Mart grill be more-or-less vaporized, I began to understand their trepidation.