obituaries
Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host Of NPR’s Car Talk, Dead At 77
Before laptops, before cellphones, and before computers, hackers hacked machines. For most of the last century, the machine of choice was the car. Car repair, like chess, took a day…
Ray Dolby, Father Of Modern Noise Reduction, Dead At 80
Ray Dolby, creator of the Dolby noise-reduction system that revolutionized recording, died on September 12, 2013. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and died of leukemia in his San Francisco home. He…
Bill Moggridge, Designer Of The First Laptop And Co-Founder Of IDEO Is Dead At 69
Bill Moggridge, noted consumer electronics designer, died on September 8th, 2012 of cancer. He was 69. Wizards like Bill Moggridge stayed up late to build our future. As the co-founder…
Jack Tramiel, one of the PC industry’s major pioneers, has died. He was born in 1928 and, after surviving imprisonment in Auschwitz and another concentration camp during World War II,…
Ned Strongin, co-inventor of Connect 4, passed away on April 9 of this year. He also invented Weebles, the little toys that wobble but don’t fall down. Strongin was 92.
Jerome York – Jerry to the folks at Apple – joined the Apple board in 1997, the board that voted Steve Jobs back into the CEO position after a decade…
Noted Computer Science professor Randy Pausch passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch was a founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University…
Dr. Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon CS professor, Dead at 47
Noted Computer Science professor Randy Pausch passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch was a founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University…
Watch Blogger and horology genius died on May 12. His insight and research into everything from Omegas to mainsprings made him one of the most important names in this business.…