Dave Farber has died

rvz•6시간 전

RIP. A true computer science legend and Bell Labs alumni.

tosh•6시간 전

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Farber

throw0101c•3시간 전

> After moving to the University of Delaware, Farber helped conceive and organize the National Science Foundation’s Computer Science Network (CSNet), which made then-experimental networking technology available to academic computer scientists and was instrumental in spreading the technology globally, to both industry and academia. Farber also helped plan and develop NSFNET and National Research & Education Network (NREN), efforts that led to the development of the current commercial Internet. Along with Bob Kahn, he conceived the pioneering Gigabit Testbed activity of the NSF.

* https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/dave-farber/

compsciphd•6시간 전

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.

throw_m239339•6시간 전

RIP.

kristopolous•5시간 전

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

quadhome•4시간 전

IP-Asia met every week via Zoom. Several other people whose names appear in the same literature frequented it too. Pop in tonight for the final session?

nunobrito•5시간 전

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.

andyjohnson0•4시간 전

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.

ricktdotorg•4시간 전

Dave's Interesting People email list was a TRUE highlight of the early Internet.

Insanity•4시간 전

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!

deejaaymac•4시간 전

RIP Dave

gpvos•3시간 전

I think a black bar is in order.

sejje•3시간 전

Amen.

cyanbane•3시간 전

Good to see a lot of these archived: https://seclists.org/interesting-people/

What a life lived.

jordanscales•2시간 전

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•1시간 전

"at the too-young age of 91"

Ok I chuckled

anjel•1시간 전

Farberisms

https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/farber.htm

vikkymelani•40분 전

https://gist.github.com/bimabayusapu

Dave Farber has died

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