-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: sexta-feira, 25 de Outubro de 2002 09:53 To: all Subject: [IFIP] TC 6 - A Sailboat in the Wind (contd.)
Dear All,
Our report on the 30th Anniversary of TC 6 in Lisbon - http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/tc6.pdf - continues to be a topic of interest within the IFIP Community. People write, people call, people visit and tell us they enjoyed it a lot.
We received the following messages from two past Presidents and thought you might appreciate to read what they say:
From: Ashley Goldsworthy Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:08:29 +1000
I enjoyed reading of the TC6 activities in Portugal.
I remember Luis Penedo very well. During his time as Portuguese representative we became friends and I liked him very much. Through that friendship Luis and the then Portuguese Computer Society invited me to Lisbon in April 1985 and I delivered a paper on "Man and Computer", This was after the IFIP Council meeting in Munich at which we celebrated IFIP's 25 Anniversary in a one -day symposium. All the then seven IFIP Presidents were at those celebrations.
Getting back to Luis, he invited me to his home and he and his wife took me to dinner at a delightful Portuguese restaurant, where the seafood were kept live in pens and I still have the wooden gavel I souvenired which was provided to crack the shells.
Luis was a great fan and exponent of fado and was expert at the Portuguese guitar. I was fortunate to have him play it for me.The following evening I was able to repay his hospitality and I took him and his wife to a lovely restaurant in Lisbon and for the first and only time in my life saw a bottle of red wine opened using a piece of heated wire and snapping the top off the bottle.
The following year (1986) we held the March Council meeting in Lisbon. I'm delighted to hear of Luis' activity in retirement doing something he loves.
I wish I'd been there
Ashley Goldsworthy
*** From: Richard I. Tanaka Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:49:43 -0700
Your message of October 17 -- focused on TC-6 -- was in my e-mail box when I returned from a memorial service that day. The service, beautifully done, was for Keith W. Uncapher, who is listed in the TC-6 report as interim Chairman during 1974 - 1975.
One of the speakers at the service was Vint Cerf, well known - indeed, famous - in the Internet pioneering world. Vint and I had not spoken before the service, so I was pleased and surprised when he discussed the TC-6 communication demonstrations in South Africa and Brazil.
He spoke anecdotally of the problems they encountered, ranging from working with a communication connection consisting of three wires emerging from the floor, to the difficulties of finding electronic parts locally to rig up some kind of working network.
While there were several participants who made it possible, Cerf mentioned specifically that Keith Uncapher drove the event, never faltering in his optimism that, both times, eventually led to a successful outcome. I'm not sure, but I don't think Vint Cerf was a member of TC-6. He went to South Africa and to Brazil because the concept intrigued him, but, equally so, because Keith was involved. Cerf was not the only one who made the event successful, of course, but perhaps his role is illustrative of Keith's ability to attract technologists who otherwise might not have been involved with IFIP.
I was pleased to note that the TC-6 report speaks of the "past President" who mentioned the TC-6 events of South Africa and Brazil, and I am glad that I decided to include those events in my report to IFIP.
There will be another memorial service in November, at the University of Southern California, where Keith was instrumental in founding and initially directing what is known as the USC Information Sciences Institute, now a 300-person organization still actively engaged in communication technology. The University wanted to organize its own tribute to Keith's contributions. I plan to speak on his role in AFIPS and his support of IFIP's TC-6 activities.
Keith was a friend, a dear friend. We miss him.
Dick Tanaka
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-------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/