Re: Ken Kennedy, dead at 61

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dana Blankenhorn <dana () a-clue com>
Date: February 8, 2007 3:21:37 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Ken Kennedy, dead at 61

Dr. Kennedy had just started at Rice when I took a class known as  
"computers for poets" in 1975.

At the time they were running a DEC PDP-8 in the basement of the  
Herman Brown building on-campus. We typed PL/1 programs onto punch  
cards, put the cards together with a rubber band, and stuck the stack  
into a slot to be run. A half-hour later we'd get back a print-out.  
Mine usually had an error in the 4th or 5th line. (I'm ADD, not OCD.)

This is what Dr. Kennedy had to work with when he started out. Today  
Rice is among the leading computer schools in the country, and he had  
a lot to do with that.

Wish I were younger and could have gone through the whole program  
again...

Dana Blankenhorn   dana () voic us
editor    www.voic.us
ZDNet Open Source blog  http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/

- ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
To: <ip () v2 listbox com>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: [IP] Ken Kennedy, dead at 61


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> From: Dan Updegrove <updegrove () mail utexas edu>
> Date: February 8, 2007 3:44:49 AM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Ken Kennedy, dead at 61
>
> Dave,
>
> Sad news, indeed,
>
> Dan
>
>
> Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice University's nationally ranked  
> computer
> science program and one of the world's foremost experts on
> high-performance computing, died Wednesday at a Houston hospital  
> after a
> long battle with cancer. He was 61. "Rice has lost one of its great
> intellectual leaders and a great human being," Rice President David
> Leebron said. "Ken Kennedy early on realized the power of computers to
> address real problems that confront people and the earth. His most
> recent contributions included using bioanalysis to help work on health
> issues like cancer. Ken leaves a great legacy for Rice and for  
> mankind.
> He will be missed."
>
> Kennedy was known the world-over for his expertise in programming
> language implementation and high-performance computing - two  
> disciplines
> he'd first been exposed to during graduate studies at NYU's Courant
> Institute of Mathematics in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Kennedy  
> was
> one of the first graduate students in the new field of computer  
> science
> and he credited his Ph.D. advisor, Jack Schwartz, with opening his  
> eyes
> to the possibilities of high-performance computing.
>
> Kennedy authored more than 200 technical articles and two books. He  
> was
> a fellow of the ACM, the American Association for the Advancement of
> Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
> and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In recognition of his
> achievements in compilation for high-performance computer systems, he
> was given the 1995 W. W. McDowell Award, the highest research award of
> the IEEE Computer Society.
>
> http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=9268&;
>
> Jan Odegard
>
> - -- Jan Erik Odegard, Executive Director, CITI
> Computer & Information Technology Institute | Duncan Hall 1084
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> odegard () rice edu | Phone: +1 713.348.3128 | Fax: +1 713.348.6182
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>
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