Fwd: obituary

[mike808@users.sourceforge.net]

FYI - from another list:

> The info below is from a New York Times obituary today.  I haven't
> seen it on slashdot, so I thought you might not have, either.
> 
> Donald Pederson, a computer scientist who oversaw the creation of a
> widely used tool for the design of electronic circuits, died on
> Dec. 25 in Concord, Calif. He was 79.
> 
> ... in 1972 ... Mr. Pederson's laboratory at the University of
> California, Berkeley, created a fast and accurate program called
> Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis, or Spice.
> 
> The program quickly became an industry standard, and versions of it
> are used today to test chips ...
> 
> Mr. Pederson insisted on making Spice's code available to other
> engineers as long as they did not sell it and they sent back
> improvements. This made him one of the first practitioners of the
> approach now known as open source, colleagues said.

Mike/

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