[ih] More sad news

[vinton cerf]

I gotta hear about the taxi ride!
v


On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:

> Where Louis and Andre were in their element finding restaurants was the
> 4th Data Comm Symposium in Quebec City.  Every night was a new delight!  I
> remember walking back to the hotel one night, waiting for a traffic light,
> some local Quebecois were making derogatory comments about us in French,
> and Louis or Andre shocked them by shutting them down in French.  ;-)
>
> And then there was the taxi ride back for the Birds of a Feather session,
> . . . but that is another story.
>
> On Jan 20, 2024, at 16:08, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
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