<div dir="ltr">indeed he was, Craig - we were grad students at UCLA together (along with Steve Crocker among many others). I had the pleasure of working now and then with Mario on networking analyses and product development. A real loss of a friend and a valued member of our community. Too young.<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 5:30 PM Craig Partridge <<a href="mailto:craig@tereschau.net">craig@tereschau.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Various posts on Facebook that Mario Gerla has passed away from cancer.<div><br></div><div>As I understand Mario's career, he started out as a grad student in Len Kleinrock's lab, doing analyses of the ARPANET performance. Later as a professor at UCLA, he also made significant contributions to wireless and sensor networking (among other areas).</div><div><br></div><div>I knew him as an extremely gracious and insightful colleague.<br><br>Craig<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-3932294865541836173gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">*****<br><div>Craig Partridge's email account for professional society activities and mailing lists.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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