PASSAGES

We are saddened to report on the passing of these computer pioneers since January 1, 2006.

Alan Kotok—May 26, 2006 Computer pioneer, architect, programmer

Bernard Galler—September 4, 2006 Computer pioneer, educator, founding editor, Annals of the History of Computing

Ray Noorda—October 9, 2006 Businessman, CEO of Novell (1982–1994)

Donald Wilson—November 25, 2006 LexisNexis developer

Al Shugart—December 12, 2006 Disk drive industry pioneer

Richard Newton—January 2, 2007 Electronic design automation and integrated circuit design pioneer

Jean Ichbiah—January 26, 2007 Principal designer of Ada programming language

Neil Lincoln—January 26, 2007 Supercomputing architect and pioneer

Jim Gray—January 29, 2007 (missing at sea) Database pioneer

Doug Ross—January 31, 2007 CAD and software methodology pioneer

Ken Kennedy—February 7, 2007 High-performance computing pioneer

John Backus—March 21, 2007 FORTRAN team leader

Karen Spärck Jones—April 4, 2007 Pioneer in AI and natural language processing