From jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu Thu Jul 13 10:10:03 2017 From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:10:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ih] old BBN reports on TCP Message-ID: <20170713171003.A489718C094@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: Craig Partridge > a team led by Noel Chiappa Not sure that's quite how I'd put it... I was more just the person who knew you. >> Report No. 3900, "TCP/PSIP Development Report", August 1978 >> Report No. 3907, "THP Development Report", August 1978 >> Report No. 4295, M. A. Wingfield, "TCP Software Documentation", FWIW, we already have copies of some other ones; they're included in the 'BBN V6 with TCP/IP' tree at the repository: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/doc Noel From touch at isi.edu Thu Jul 13 10:38:25 2017 From: touch at isi.edu (Joe Touch) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:38:25 -0700 Subject: [ih] [e2e] Passing of an Internet historian - Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan In-Reply-To: <2cdb6f08-b577-01dc-d107-205da4f9da1c@isi.edu> References: <2cdb6f08-b577-01dc-d107-205da4f9da1c@isi.edu> Message-ID: Hi, all, I'm collecting any statements, fond memories, or photos you'd like to share about Chris, especially regarding here involvement with the SIGCOMM conference. Please contact me directly with this information. I am collecting them for the SIG. Joe On 6/14/2017 9:48 AM, Joe Touch wrote: > Hi, all, > > The following was just announced on the Sigcomm list, FYI: > > ----- > > 4. We are sad to report the passing away of longtime ACM SIGCOMM member > and enthusiastic volunteer, Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan on May 23 after a > lengthy and disabling illness. She had been a faculty member in the > Computer Sciences department at the University of Texas, Austin, for > more than two decades and helped organize the SIGCOMM conference at > Austin in 1989. Her obituary can be found here: > http://wcfish.tributes.com/obituary/read/Chris-Edmondson-Yurkanan-104821831 > > Importantly, one of her main passions was Internet (and SIGCOMM) > history: > https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e842/1d62b47d568e11dc6893f7f5603fd99d6a4c.pdf > > ---- > > > I'm sad to hear that Chris has passed, but also wanted to note some > additional ways in which Chris served the community that was not > included in the tribute: > > As far as I can tell, Chris created the role of ACM SIGCOMM Conference > Coordinator, which involved both overseeing the organization of the > SIGCOMM annual conference, but also managing request for > "in-cooperation" status. Although I'm not sure when she started, she > served through 2003, at which time the role of Conference Coordinator > Emeritus was created for her to help hand-off the role (to me, FWIW). > She served as SIG Secretary/Treasurer 1991-1995, and organized the 1999 > panel of past SIGCOMM Award recipients on its 10th anniversary. I was > also honored to host her as a USC/ISI Postel Center Visiting Research > Scholar in 2004, to investigate our archives for her research in > Internet history. > > FYI. And if you'll pardon the personal note, she is missed and > remembered fondly. > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > end2end-interest mailing list > end2end-interest at postel.org > http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/end2end-interest > Contact list-owner at postel.org for assistance. From arussell at arussell.org Tue Jul 18 06:04:33 2017 From: arussell at arussell.org (Andrew Russell) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:04:33 -0400 Subject: [ih] Fwd: Charlie Bachman Memorial Service is July 23 - Please share Message-ID: All - 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). Obituaries have been published by the NY Times and Washington Post (links below). Information about a memorial service and donations also is below. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/technology/charles-w-bachman-dies.html 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 Best regards, Andy > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Chandini Bachman > >> Subject: Charlie Bachman Memorial Service is July 23 - Please share >> Date: July 14, 2017 at 18:24:29 EDT >> >> 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: chandinibachman at gmail.com . >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> 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 directly to CBI through this link: "> . >> >> >> Thank you for your lifetime of friendship and support for our parents. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Chandini Margaret Bachman >> 4710 Bethesda Ave Apt 502 >> Bethesda, MD 20814 >> 202-487-3482 >> >> Thomas Hadley Bachman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: