[ih] More sad news

[John Day]

;-)  lol

Well, if you remember the night of the Birds of Feather session was relatively early. Louis had arranged a great restaurant in the Old City.

Dinner had been arranged a little earlier than civilized so we could be back for evening sessions.  But Louis had us well-organized:  With precisely the right number of taxis outside the hotel at the appointed hour, off we went! We would troop into the restaurant, settle into 3 or 4 big tables, somehow order dinner around the on-going discussion of what we had heard that day. Conversations were just winding down from a wonderful dessert, when Louis would suddenly appear, announcing it was time to go. (Timing is everything!) Taxis were waiting outside. We piled in again, to head back for the evening ‘birds of a feather’ sessions!
 
This is especially vivid for me, because it didn’t end so simply. Somehow Grossman and I happened to pile Louis’s cab with either the craziest or most competent driver in Quebec. Louis must have told them time was of the essence. Our cabbie was whipping through the narrow streets of the Old City shifting frantically at every turn, then speeding out the Grande Allée, through the old wall of the city at a high speed. Ahead of us was a red light, the driver momentarily let up on the gas, clearly to take his place in the line of cars waiting for the light. NO!! it must have been to assess the situation, because he tromped on the gas again as he pulled into the left lane (wha!) and headed right for the on-coming traffic! (OMG! We are about to die!) At the last possible second, the light turned green and at precisely that instant, we turned left! With us howling with laughter. A couple more right turns and we were at the front door of the hotel!  ;-)

Take care,
John

> On Jan 20, 2024, at 17:15, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I gotta hear about the taxi ride!
> v
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> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net <mailto: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.  ;-)
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>> And then there was the taxi ride back for the Birds of a Feather session, . . . but that is another story.
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>>> On Jan 20, 2024, at 16:08, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com <mailto:vgcerf at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> 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. 
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>>> v
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>>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 2:06 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net <mailto: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".
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>>>> 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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