[ih] More sad news

[vinton cerf]

Thanks so much for drawing our attention to this notable departure. I knew
Andre well in the 1970s and I seem to recall a particularly significant
networking working around 1975 in Santa Monica at which Andre was
especially active. He and I shared an interest in Petri nets - which I used
in my Ph.D. dissertation at UCLA. I also seem to recall that he and Louis
Pouzin conspired at a SIGCOMM (?) meeting in Montreal (?) to find a good
French restaurant. They queried locals on their restaurant recommendations
and rank ordered them based on their wine suggestions. Definitely one of
the good guys.

v


On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 2:06 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:

> I was notified this morning of the passing of André Danthine, at the
> University of Liege, a long time network researcher and member of the
> original network traveling circus, as they called it.  ;-)
>
> It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the passing of Prof.
> André Danthine this January 18th, at the age of 91.
>
> André was an electromechanical engineer (1959) from the University of
> Liège, Belgium, and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from MIT
> (1961). After a few years spent in industry, he started his academic career
> in 1967 at the University of Liège, holding the chair in automatic control.
> In 1972, after witnessing the first public Arpanet demonstration, he
> launched the research group in Computer Networking at the University of
> Liège, and connected to the Internet pioneers Louis Pouzin, Vint Cerf and
> Bob Metcalfe, among others. In 1978 he organized in Liège the first
> conference on Computer Network Protocols, which became the IFIP WG 6.1 PSTV
> conference in 1981. In 1983, he was the coordinator of one of the first 13
> European ESPRIT projects. He retired on September 30, 1997, and in 2000 he
> received the ACM SIGCOMM award for "Basic contributions to protocol design
> and modeling, and for leadership in the development of computer networking
> in Europe".
>
> André was an active member of our scientific community through his
> involvement in conferences and international research projects. Within IFIP
> he chaired TC6 from 1980 to 1985, and was the Belgian TC6 representative
> until 2004. He was also an early member of IFIP WG6.1 and IFIP WG6.2.
>
> He had a strong, enthusiastic and endearing personality, and left his mark
> on generations of students and numerous researchers, including me as he was
> my PhD advisor and an inspiring leader at the beginning of my career. I owe
> him a lot, and I will miss him.
>
> More details about his career can be found in the interview he gave to
> Andrew L. Russell in 2012:
>
> https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/162412/oh428ad.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
>
> If you wish to express condolences, you can use the following link (in
> French):
>
> https://www.dansnospensees.be/avis-de-deces/deces-detail/18-01-2024/andre-danthine
>
> Take care,
> John Day
>
>