Re: Nico Haberman (for those who knew him but may not have heard the following)

[Ted Shortliffe <ehs@camis.stanford.edu>]

>(Article from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Monday, August 9, 1993)
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>Heart attack kills professor at CMU 
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>A. Nico Habermann, the Alan J. Perlis professor of computer science at 
>Carnegie Mellon University and
>a founder of the Software Engineering Institute, suffered a heart attack 
>yesterday and died at his Squirrel Hill home. He was 62. 
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>Since 1991, Mr. Habermann had been on leave from CMU to be assistant director 
>for computer and information science and engineering at the National Science 
>Foundation.  He commuted regularly from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh. 
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>When CMU established its computer science school in 1988, Mr. Habermann was 
>its first dean. Between 1980 and 1988, he was the head of CMU's computer 
>science department. 
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>An internationally renowned computer scientist, Mr. Habermann was known for 
>his work in programming languages, operating systems, software engineering and
>packages.  He worked on language design and implementation for Algol 60, 
>Bliss, Pascal, Ada, and other special purpose computer languages.  
>Mr. Habermann's contributions to the field include a critique on Pascal. 
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>A native of Amsterdam, Mr. Habermann received a doctorate on applied 
>mathematics from Technological University, Eindhoven, Netherlands, in 1967.  
>He earned his master's and bachelor's degrees in mathematics in 1958 and 1963, 
>respectively, from Free University in Amsterdam. 
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>In 1968, Mr. Habermann came to CMU as a visiting research scientist in the 
>computer science department.  He became associate professor in 1973 and 
>acting department head in 1979. 
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>Since 1986, he had been an adjunct professor of computer science at Jiao Tong 
>University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China. 
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>Mr. Habermann was a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications 
>Board of the National Academy of Science.  He was an advisor to the Max Planck 
>Institute in Germany and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.  He was 
>editor of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Transactions 
>on Software Engineering. 
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>Mr. Habermann exercised regularly and usually walked to work.  He jogged 
>yesterday shortly before suffering the attack on the porch of his home.  He 
>also was an avid wind surfer. 
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>Surviving are his wife, Marta, of Pittsburgh; a son, Frits; three daughters, 
>Eveline Killian of Burlington, Vt., and Irene and Marianne Habermann, both of 
>Pittsburgh, and two grandchildren. 
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>Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at H. Samson, 537 N. Neville St., 
>Oakland.