[ih] David C. Walden

[Jorge Amodio]

Sad news. 
Most sincere condolences to family and friends.

-Jorge

> On May 3, 2022, at 8:04 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> I was sorry to see an announcement yesterday from Boris Veytsman, the
> President of the TeX Users Group:
> 
>>> ...
>>> In other unhappy news, I am very sad to report the passing of a great
>>> friend and TeX enthusiast, Dave Walden.  Dave was a living history of
>>> computers and computer typesetting, who knew everything and everybody.
>>> He was one of the most generous people I ever knew, always here to
>>> help and support.  He was a TUG director and treasurer for many years.
>>> I learned a lot from Dave and his advice.  He will be missed.  (A longer
>>> memoriam will appear in the next TUGboat.)
>>> ...
> 
> Dave was an Internet pioneer who between 1970 and 1976 appears in the
> author list of at least 27 Internet RFC documents, spanning numbers 61
> to 716.
> 
> The University of Utah is Node 4 of the original Arpanet, and Dave
> told me that it was he who installed the first BBN (Bolt Beranek and
> Newman, Inc.) IMP here at Utah.  That happened several years before I
> arrived in Salt Lake City, so I didn't meet him until the post-2000
> years at TeX User Group conferences.
> 
> In later years, after his retirement from BBN, Dave became an editor
> of the journal IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. He also wrote
> 16 articles in that journal, including two on the history of BBN, one
> on that of Interleaf, Inc., and co-authored two on that of the TeX
> typesetting system.  BibTeX entries for all of them can be found in
> 
>    http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/ieeeannhistcomput.bib
> 
> [change .bib to .html for a view with active hyperlinks].
> 
> Dave wrote 47 articles in TUGboat, the journal of the TeX Users Group,
> 
>    http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/tugboat.bib
> 
> including numerous interviews with TUG members.
> 
> Dave's Web sites at
> 
>    https://walden-family.com/
>    https://walden-family.com/dave/
> 
> document some of his other activities.
> 
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