Don Dailey, 1956 -2013

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Some will say that your feeling is due to your Slavic sentimentalism. As a Latin, they will say something similar of me.

Fern

Same here as a petrolium sheikh

[lkaufman]

[quote="lkaufman" Despite the lack of formal education, by the mid 1990s he was the head of the computing department at M.I.T. (!!!!). Larry Kaufman[/quote]

According to IM Kenneth Regan, whom I'm sure is correct, this should be amended to read

"...by the mid 1990s he was the head of systems administration for the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science."

[fern]

A great accomplishment anyway.

fern

[bhlangonijr]

Despite the lack of formal education, by the mid 1990s he was the head of the computing department at M.I.T. (!!!!). Larry Kaufman

According to IM Kenneth Regan, whom I'm sure is correct, this should be amended to read

"...by the mid 1990s he was the head of systems administration for the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science."

That's true. I met him in DOCCC 2010 and at some point I asked him if "he was still teaching at MIT" (Obviously I just presumed he was a professor at MIT). He said something like: "Why does everyone ask that? I worked at the *systems ADMINISTRATION department....". He seemed a bit upset but still smiling...

Larry you were there as well but you probably don't remember about that.

[lkaufman]

Despite the lack of formal education, by the mid 1990s he was the head of the computing department at M.I.T. (!!!!). Larry Kaufman

According to IM Kenneth Regan, whom I'm sure is correct, this should be amended to read

"...by the mid 1990s he was the head of systems administration for the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science."

That's true. I met him in DOCCC 2010 and at some point I asked him if "he was still teaching at MIT" (Obviously I just presumed he was a professor at MIT). He said something like: "Why does everyone ask that? I worked at the *systems ADMINISTRATION department....". He seemed a bit upset but still smiling...

Larry you were there as well but you probably don't remember about that.

I was there as a student thirty years earlier!

[Mark]

Despite the lack of formal education, by the mid 1990s he was the head of the computing department at M.I.T. (!!!!). Larry Kaufman

According to IM Kenneth Regan, whom I'm sure is correct, this should be amended to read

"...by the mid 1990s he was the head of systems administration for the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science."

That's true. I met him in DOCCC 2010 and at some point I asked him if "he was still teaching at MIT" (Obviously I just presumed he was a professor at MIT). He said something like: "Why does everyone ask that? I worked at the *systems ADMINISTRATION department....". He seemed a bit upset but still smiling...

Larry you were there as well but you probably don't remember about that.

I was there as a student thirty years earlier!

Which is also quite an accomplishment!

[WuShock]

http://theroanokestar.com/2013/12/06/ro ... mpionship/


http://tinyurl.com/m8remh6

[Matthias Gemuh]

http://news.yahoo.com/gene-therapy-scor ... 00028.html

... but too late for Don.

[mig2004]

http://news.yahoo.com/gene-therapy-scor ... 00028.html

... but too late for Don.

Quite interesting Matthias. Thanks for the link.

As an add-on, here is another interesting discussion, by cancer sufferers themselves... http://www.cancercompass.com/message-bo ... 6132,0.htm

I hope that we don't have to lose more good people.

[Mincho Georgiev]

I came back here today after a couple of months break and this is very sad news. Thank you Don! R.I.P, you will be missed!