[ih] Earl Craighill has passed away

[Barbara Denny]

I was sad to hear recently that another former SRI colleague has passed away.  Earl died last year on August 21.  He was involved in a solo car accident where his car flipped over.  The police reported that he over corrected after he went off on a soft shoulder and the road was slick at the time.
I am sure people on this list knew him for his early work at SRI on packet speech.  I think this work focused on utilizing packet radio as the transmission media.   Here is a link to a picture of Earl in the mobile (bread) van.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTpQSHFDxRzYm1tChLv0EhwIE8Z3PLDsufxmveA-l0KIPP4Twpvz7XmjZs&s
If you like to learn more about Earl and this topic,  see:
https://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/lpcip
This page contains more information than the previously mentioned Gray's book on Linear Predictive Coding.  It has other nuggets including links to Earl's scanned copy of the 1982 Packet Speech Program Review meeting and a mpg video of the 1976 packet speech conference on the ARPAnet.
In the 80s, Earl shifted to developing multimedia collaboration tools.
I saw Earl more often playing softball. He was an avid player in the SRI coed leagues. Earl would often bring his daughters to play, and cheer him and the team.
barbara