[ih] More sad news

[vinton cerf]

wow, on a full stomach....

v


On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:

> ;-)  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:
>
> 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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