Let me say a few words about David Tilbrook. Unlike the author of that very nice linked article below I knew David quite well. I co-chaired a couple of Usenix conferences with him and even flew to Toronto for his daughter's bat mitzvah (umm, because he invited me), etc. He was very smart, he'd spent years at the CS dept at CMU and on other projects. Ron Baecker (CMU prof) credits David's student work as fundamental to his 2005 SIGCHI award. His focus was always on how do we make complex problems (in software engineering) simpler and easier to understand and manage? This short article credits him with the quip: "Whenever faced with a problem, some people say `Lets use _____.' Now, they have two problems." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5187686 He was very funny and very likeable. I remember when we drew quite a participatory crowd at a San Francisco Hilton Usenix conference (about 3,000 attendees) by starting a penny-pitching contest -- toss pennies or other coins towards a wall from some distance, whoever is closest to the wall in each round keeps them all. It got quite out of hand but was a typical Tilbrook "well, we might as well have some fun!" Indeed, David, we might as well have some fun. On January 25, 2021 at 12:12 jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) wrote:
unrelated, but, David Tilbrook, an early Unix pioneer, passed away a week or so ago. due to COVID.
https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2021/01/remembering-the-work-of-davi...
--jim
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 04:59:27PM +0000, Mel Beckman wrote:
So often we report here on nanog the passing of major Internet contributors, it seems even more fitting that we support these contributors when they???re in need through no fault of their own. Thanks for posting this, Jim.
-mel
On Jan 25, 2021, at 8:40 AM, Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> wrote:
??? unsure if this is allowed or not, but, here goes.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ed-hew-medical-expenses
some of you may remember ed.
some, maybe not.
but, as the uucp maps maintainer for canada, he was quite influential in the rise of email, and to some degree, the internet, in canada.
--jim
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