[SIGCIS-Members] In memory of Robert W. Doran

[Dag Spicer]

Colleagues,

You may also wish to watch Professor Doran’s 2013 lecture at the Computer History Museum:

The Totalisator — An Algorithm that Led to an Industry.

Dag

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Dag Spicer
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum
Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
ACM History Committee
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Mountain View CA  94043

“History is a vast early warning system.”
— Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990).


On Nov 4, 2024, at 11:18 AM, Brian E Carpenter via Members <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:



Dear colleagues,

Today (November 5, in New Zealand) Bob Doran, among other things a computing historian, would have been 80 years old. A few of us have edited a memorial to him:

C.S. Calude, B.E. Carpenter, M.J. Dinneen and G. Dobbie (eds.),   In Memory of Robert W. Doran, Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 Nov. 2024.

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Regards
  Brian Carpenter
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