I was trying to get a hold of him for years. People who knew him kept saying they'd get me in touch, never did.
His name pops up a lot during the 60s and 70s as an author on numerous articles about networks, often regarding many competing, now defunct alternative networks to the Internet.
Met him without knowing who this person was when proposing a decentralized anti-virus platform, he cared and helped a lot. Besides teaching, Dave never stopped learning. Quite a good role model for everyone here.
Dave's Interesting People email list was a TRUE highlight of the early Internet.
jordanscales
Was fortunate enough to attend a few guest lectures from him at Stevens when I got my minor degree in science and technology studies. He was so sharp that I was blown away that he was (at the time) 80 years old.
I wonder what his life in Tokyo was like! Did he ever write about it?
reader9274
"at the too-young age of 91"
Ok I chuckled
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gpvos
I think a black bar is in order.
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Insanity
RIP.
Original email mentions “too young age of 91”, but IMO that’s a beautiful age to reach, especially for a life seemingly well lived!
compsciphd
last email from IP was on Feb 1. Though I really haven't looked at it in years. it used to be much more discussion oriented.
Animats
Another one of the greats gone.
31337Logic
RIP :-(
andyjohnson0
Another legend of our field has left the stage. RIP.
I never knew him, but I've been lurking on his IP list since the nineties. It was always informative, even as the web made tech news pervasive. Black bar, I reckon.
throw_m239339
RIP.
deejaaymac
RIP Dave
rvz
RIP. A true computer science legend and Bell Labs alumni.
I was trying to get a hold of him for years. People who knew him kept saying they'd get me in touch, never did.
His name pops up a lot during the 60s and 70s as an author on numerous articles about networks, often regarding many competing, now defunct alternative networks to the Internet.
Examples of scans I personally made: https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamati... and https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamati...
He's one of those people where you go through archival industry journals and are like "oh look there he is again"
For instance, SNOBOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL
Met him without knowing who this person was when proposing a decentralized anti-virus platform, he cared and helped a lot. Besides teaching, Dave never stopped learning. Quite a good role model for everyone here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Farber
Good to see a lot of these archived: https://seclists.org/interesting-people/
What a life lived.
Farberisms
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/farber.htm
Dave's Interesting People email list was a TRUE highlight of the early Internet.
Was fortunate enough to attend a few guest lectures from him at Stevens when I got my minor degree in science and technology studies. He was so sharp that I was blown away that he was (at the time) 80 years old.
I wonder what his life in Tokyo was like! Did he ever write about it?
"at the too-young age of 91"
Ok I chuckled
I think a black bar is in order.
RIP.
Original email mentions “too young age of 91”, but IMO that’s a beautiful age to reach, especially for a life seemingly well lived!
last email from IP was on Feb 1. Though I really haven't looked at it in years. it used to be much more discussion oriented.
Another one of the greats gone.
RIP :-(
Another legend of our field has left the stage. RIP.
I never knew him, but I've been lurking on his IP list since the nineties. It was always informative, even as the web made tech news pervasive. Black bar, I reckon.
RIP.
RIP Dave
RIP. A true computer science legend and Bell Labs alumni.