The info below is from a New York Times obituary today. I haven't seen it on slashdot, so I thought you might not have, either.
Donald Pederson, a computer scientist who oversaw the creation of a widely used tool for the design of electronic circuits, died on Dec. 25 in Concord, Calif. He was 79. ... in 1972 ... Mr. Pederson's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, created a fast and accurate program called Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis, or Spice. The program quickly became an industry standard, and versions of it are used today to test chips ... Mr. Pederson insisted on making Spice's code available to other engineers as long as they did not sell it and they sent back improvements. This made him one of the first practitioners of the approach now known as open source, colleagues said. -- Jon Beck, PhD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Assoc Professor, Computer Science 2162 Violette Hall Truman State University 660.785.7233 Kirksville, MO 63501 http://vh216202.truman.edu/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
