Clem Cole wrote in <CAC20D2P_OJhV7QG=uJwnk0Asn-z9h9k3BZqaeTZPQzGtPwoYVg@\ mail.gmail.com>: |+1 I have indeed watched "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing"[1] again today, at least in parts, after i heard that Paul Allen died. And John Postel died exactly twenty years ago, i have read his name a thousand times. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ7ktIlSM0 |On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:40 AM Noel Chiappa &lt;[1]jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.ed\ |u[/1]> wrote: | | [1] mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu | ||    > From: Dave Horsfall | ||    > We lost ... on this day | ||An email from someone on a related topic has reminded me of someone \ ||else you ||should make sure is only your list (not sure if you already have him): ||J. C. R. Licklider; we lost him on June 26, 1990. | ||He didn't write much code himself, but the work of people he funded (e.g. ||Doug Engelbart, the ARPANet guys, Multics, etc, etc, etc) to work on his ||vision has led to today's computerized, information-rich world. For \ ||people who ||only know today's networked world, the change from what came before, \ ||and thus ||his impact on the world (since his ideas and the work of people he \ ||sponsored ||led, directly and indirectly, to much of it), is probably hard to truly ||fathom. | ||He is, in my estimation, one of the most important and influential \ ||computer ||scientists of all. I wonder how many computer science people had more \ ||of an ||impact; the list is surely pretty short. Babbage; Turing; who else? | ||        Noel --End of &lt;CAC20D2P_OJhV7QG=uJwnk0Asn-z9h9k3BZqaeTZPQzGtPwoYVg(a)mail.gmail\ .com> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)