For those of you who are unfortunate enough never to have met him, let me just say that Doug is one of those giants whose shoulders we are always standing on.
However, he is a quiet, humble giant, and if you never studied the history of Unix, or computer science in general you probably would not know them, since Doug would certainly would not volunteer to tell you his contributions. Last year I went to a presentation up at DSLUG in Hanover and there was Doug sitting in the audience. After the presentation I was talking to some of his students and mentioned something about Doug's contributions and they were astonished. He had never mentioned his past to them in class. I was proud to be the chairman of the USENIX awards committee the year we offered the two awards (STUG and Lifetime Achievement) to Doug, but even those awards could not top this list: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sinclair/doug/ Warmest regards, maddog _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
