[SIGCIS-Members] Walter Shawlee - slide rules - obit

[Jonathan Coopersmith]

FYI
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/science/walter-shawlee-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/17/technology/slide-rules-tap-into-nostalgia-of-the-pocket-protector-crowd.html

Stay sane,

Jonathan

PS I do do more than read obits.  I'm just not sure what.

Jonathan Coopersmith
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Professor Emeritus
Department of History
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-4236
979.739.4708 (cell)

John Mather "Instrument Maker to the Stars,"
<https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/instrument-maker-to-the-stars/>
 *Aerospace America* November 2023
"Technological obsolescence,
<https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/05/technological-obsolescence>"
National Academy of Engineering *Perspectives* May 23, 2023
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