Lynn Conway (1938–2024)

StefanL, 19.09.24, 12:58

Lynn Conway was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher and university professor whose work at Xerox PARC in the 1970s led to the integrated circuit design and manufacturing methodology known as Very Large Scale Integration, or VLSI, something which touches very many facets of the world that we live in today. In 1979, with Carver Mead, she published Introduction to...

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José Contreras

StefanL, 11.04.19, 05:40

José 'Pepe' Contreras war mein Freund, zuerst weil seine Frau Ruth Contreras meine gute Chorfreundin und dann, weil er ein sehr freundlicher Mensch war und wir beide auf einem Chorfest gleich einen Narren aneinander gefressen hatten. Pepe starb im März 2019 in Pitten, wo er mit Ruth, die zwar in Bogotà geboren wurde aber aus Pitten abstammte und dorthin zurückkehrte, lebte....

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2 Funerals in 2 Days

StefanL, 12.01.18, 20:25

2 funerals in 2 days has been a bit much for me. Both personalities passed away before their time at the end of last year. Both of them I Iiked and also estimated them highly. I knew Johanna a lot better than Michael and consequently also liked her in a different way and more. Our relationship had been less close in...

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2 Verstorbene - ein Nachruf

StefanL, 08.01.18, 21:01

Judging it by the its start only, 2018 is already worse than 2017. On January 4 we had to learn from the press that Mag. Michael Truppe had died on December 26, 2017. It's always shocking to us survivors when the great killer, that he had fought for some time and that tried me too, has won one more victory and...

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Play With the Stars in Heaven, Walter Becker

StefanL, 31.12.17, 20:30

"Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967," Donald Fagen, long time friend and colleague, wrote in a tribute to Becker. "He was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny."

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Farewell Prince, We Will Now Cry and Weep for You

DogbertA, 21.04.16, 20:26

Like everybody reasonable else the Tiny Talk Charitable Trust bids farewell to Prince Rogers Nelson who died this morning at his estate. Thanks to the art of recording many memories will be presevered pretty faithfully. Still, knowing that musicians' greatest sounds happen outside the public sphere, we feel urged to quote one Roy Beatty: All those moments will be lost in...

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May You Find Peace, Lev

StefanL, 11.01.14, 23:34

The lion of the Sinai, the very talented tank commander, the erstwhile darling of Ben-Gurion, the disappointed prince of war who should later be at least partly responsible for Sabra and Shatila. Throughout the 70ies and 80ies He was the champion of the proliferation of settlement construction in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and provoked through first buying...

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Ruhe in Frieden, Erich

MaryW, 30.05.13, 18:18

Erich Meixner war der freundlichste und liebste Mensch, den ich in meinem Leben kennengelernt habe. Und das war im Kindergarten, wo seine um meine Kinder, als sie klein und noch nicht in der Schule waren, hingingen. Es war Liebe auf den ersten Elternabend. Wir haben viel zusammen unternommen und uns gegenseitig unterstützt, als das für Väter noch nicht verständlich war.

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