Il mio amico e grande uomo di scienza Gene Golub
e' morto ieri.
Sotto trovate il messaggio della NA Digest. Avevamo l'onore di averlo nel Collegio Docenti.
Il nostro Dottorato, nel suo piccolo, ne onorera' la
memoria dedicandogli il Workshop di fine anno 2008.
Il Coordinatore Cari saluti
Stefano Serra Capizzano
According to NA Digest:
Gene Golub, founder of the NA Digest, passed away today, Friday, November
16,at the Stanford University Hospital. He was 75
years old.
Gene returned home to Stanford recently from a
trip to Hong Kong. He was planning to leave again Tuesday on another trip,
this one to Zurich where the ETH was to honor him with a special degree.
Instead, Sunday night he went to the emergency room because he was "feeling
lousy". On Tuesday, he was found to have AML, acute myelogenous leukemia, a
form of cancer that affects the white blood cells. This is a potentially curable
disease and he was expecting to begin chemotherapy today. But serious
complications developed suddenly over night.
I was able to see Gene for an hour last night
and he was in reasonably good spirits. Mike Saunders was trying to get Gene's
laptop to use dial-up over the hospital's phone system because Gene said he
was a couple of days behind on his email. I was planning to get a wireless
card for his machine today. None of us had any idea how suddenly the situation
would worsen.
The Stanford iCME students have created a
memorial blog at
http://genehgolub.blogspot.com.
Our community has lost its foremost member. He was a valued colleague and
friend. Goodbye, Gene.
-- Cleve Moler
|