Argus-info Digest, Vol 55, Issue 16

[CS Lee]

hi Carter,

I'm really sorry to hear about this, even though I don't know Dr.HD
personally but we are all in awe of him.

We will never forget someone who has contributed so much to the world.




On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM,
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>   1.  Dr. Hank Dardy (Carter Bullard)
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> Subject: [ARGUS] Dr. Hank Dardy
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> Gentle people,
> I'm very sad to announce that Dr. Hank Dardy passed away earlier this
> month.
>
> Hank was Chief Scientist for Computational Sciences at the U.S. Naval
> Research
> Laboratory.  A brilliant scientist/engineer, Hank's contributions to
> computing and
> communications were HUGE, pivotal.   I called him Dr. HD (high definition)
> because
> of the massive amount of work he did to champion HDTV in the US DoD, NASA
> and
> commercial broadcasting.  Without Hank, you and I wouldn't be enjoying the
> SuperBowl or March Madness on big wide screen HDTV's, at least not this
> decade.
>
> Hank was involved in the original Arpanet, directed a DoD supercomputing
> facility, and
> established one of the first national high speed networking testbeds.   In
> that role, Hank
> supported research projects that eventually produced some of the big
> stories in computer
> networking.   He was in the background in the revolution in routers,
> switches and optical
> networking, and his efforts touched almost everyone in the industry.
>
> Hank and I met at one of the early Internet Society meetings, but we didn't
> start working
> together until the early beginnings of ATM networking.    For the last 3
> years or so,  I've
> had the rare privilege to work directly with Hank, thinking of ways to help
> things go
> much much faster.
>
> Hank was one of those people that made life very special.  I will really
> miss Hank.
>
> Carter
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Best Regards,

CS Lee<geek00L[at]gmail.com>

http://geek00l.blogspot.com
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