IP: With great sadness: Mike Muuss has passed on

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:51:24 -0800
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> From: "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp () jcphome com>
> Subject: Mike Muuss has passed on
>
> I thought this might be of interest to you and other IP-ers, feel free to 
> forward to the list:
>
> Last night (Monday), Mike Muuss, famous for creating the PING program as 
> well as BRL-CAD, died in a traffic accident at 11pm on US highway 95 near 
> Aberdeen, Maryland.  He was going home from work at the time.  Mike worked 
> his entire career at the Army Research Laboratories in Aberdeen Maryland, 
> and was a specialist in first networking, then solid modelling.  Many in 
> the SIGGRAPH community will know of him because of the BRL-CAD package 
> that he authored (with others later) and his animation work which was 
> shown at several SIGGRAPH conferences.
>
> I've known Mike since 1975 and his loss will be felt deeply by those who 
> knew him.  He was married but had no children.
>
> Funeral arrangements have not been made yet (I'll follow up with another 
> note when i have the definitive arrangements for those of you who wish to 
> attend).   I will be flying to Baltimore  for the services (current 
> expectation is that the funeral will be Monday).
>
> Sorry to have such distressing news,
>
>    -Joe Pistritto-



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