<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class="">All - </div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class="">I’m writing to share the sad news that Charlie Bachman has passed away. Bachman won the Turing Award in 1973 and was best known for his work on databases, although he also made major contributions to network architecture (including as the prime mover behind OSI’s 7-layer model). </div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class="">Obituaries have been published by the NY Times and Washington Post (links below). Information about a memorial service and donations also is below. </div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/technology/charles-w-bachman-dies.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/technology/charles-w-bachman-dies.html</a></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-bachman-engineer-who-devised-a-better-way-to-manage-data-dies-at-92/2017/07/16/8eb8ebde-6a36-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-bachman-engineer-who-devised-a-better-way-to-manage-data-dies-at-92/2017/07/16/8eb8ebde-6a36-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html</a></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class="">Best regards,</div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class="">Andy</div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chandini Bachman <<a href="mailto:bachandini@zoho.com" class="">bachandini@zoho.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Charlie Bachman Memorial Service is July 23 - Please share</b><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">July 14, 2017 at 18:24:29 EDT<br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">Charlie Bachman’s children invite you to celebrate his life at a Memorial Service on Sunday, July 23, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. in the Auditorium at Brookhaven-at-Lexington, 1010 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA 02421. Please R.S.V.P. for the Memorial Service to: <a href="mailto:chandinibachman@gmail.com" class="">chandinibachman@gmail.com</a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">Surrounded by his family Charlie, 92, passed away at home in Lexington, Massachusetts, on July 13, 2017. Our mother Connie preceded him in death in 2012.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">Donations in Charlie’s honor may be made to the Charles Babbage Institute, Center for the History of Information Technology, University of Minnesota Libraries, where his professional papers are archived -- Charles Babbage Institute, 222 - 21st Avenue South, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, or online <i class="">directly</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to CBI through this link: <<a href="https://makingagift.umn.edu/onlinegiving/enterOnlineGiving.do?owner=O_CBI&desc_source=UWXX_CSEN_SITE" class="">https://makingagift.umn.edu/onlinegiving/enterOnlineGiving.do?owner=O_CBI&desc_source=UWXX_CSEN_SITE</a>"> . <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">Thank you for your lifetime of friendship and support for our parents.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">Sincerely,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">Chandini Margaret Bachman<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">4710 Bethesda Ave Apt 502<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">Bethesda, MD 20814<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">202-487-3482<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;">Thomas Hadley Bachman</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>