[IP] David Wheeler

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject:	David Wheeler
Author:	Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date:		14th December 2004 11:11:33 pm

Dave:

Sad news - David Wheeler, whom I'm proud to have counted as a friend 
of many years standing, passed away suddenly yesterday.

There is an In Memoriam notice on the Cambridge Computer Laboratory web-site:

   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/UoCCL/misc/obit/wheeler.html

>David Wheeler, FRS
>Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
>Fellow of Darwin College
>9 February 1927-13 December 2004
>
>It is with great sadness that we report the sudden death of 
>Professor David Wheeler. Prof. Wheeler was one of the pioneers of 
>Computer Science. He worked on the original EDSAC computer and wrote 
>the first computer program ever to be stored in a computer's working 
>memory. He pioneered the use of sub-routines and is particularly 
>remembered for his work on data compression.
>
>David Wheeler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981, one 
>of the earliest computer scientists to be so honoured. In October 
>2003, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum for his 
>invention of the closed subroutine, his architectural contributions 
>to the ILLIAC, the Cambridge Ring, and computer testing.
>
>David took his PhD in the University of Cambridge's Computer 
>Laboratory (then the Mathematical Laboratory) in the 1940s. He 
>continued to work in the Computer Lab right up until his death, a 
>decade after he had officially retired.
>
>David will be remembered for his vast knowledge of all areas of 
>computing, for his willingness to talk with anyone about the things 
>which interested him, for his friendliness and for his humility. 
>David was an inspiration and a help to hundreds of students and 
>colleagues over his long career. His legacy is as much in the lives 
>he touched as in the work he published. We have lost a good man and 
>a friend. He will be missed.

Regards

Brian

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