[PLUG-TALK] Brian Kernighan's _UNIX: A History and a Memoir_

[Paul Heinlein]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Russell Senior wrote:

> That said, I don't know if I'd known of Fernando before, but the 
> last name is very familiar. I met a man named Steve Corbató a little 
> over a year ago at a telecommunications conference focused on 
> Oregon, called Oregon Connections. He is currently the Executive 
> Director of a thing called Link Oregon, a consortium of universities 
> that bought a couple strands of fiber crossing the state, super 
> sharp guy.  Corbató isn't a name you come across every day, so I 
> naturally wondered if they were related. Turns out, bingo, Steve is 
> Fernando's nephew. Fernando passed away just last summer at the age 
> of 93.

Steve was my division director at OHSU for a few years before he moved 
to Link Oregon full time. I still see him every couple months. I'll 
try to remember to bring up the story.

If any of you run across Steve in your travels, take the time to get 
past his sometimes-hurried exterior. He has a lot of experience in 
research computing (his Ph.D. is in Physics) and really wants to see 
Oregon make its best contribution in those areas.

-- 
Paul Heinlein
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