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Tim Daly |
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[Axiom-developer] Richard Jenks |
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Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:48:05 -0500 |
Would you please send the following sad notice to the Axiom mailing list.
Thanks, and
Best regards,
Bob Caviness
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Richard Dimick Jenks
Axiom Developer and Computer Algebra Pioneer
On December 30, 2003, Dick died at the age of 66 after an extended and
courageous battle with multiple system atrophy. He received his PhD in
mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was
a long time employee of IBM Research until his retirement in 2002. At
IBM he was a principal in the design and implementation of the Axiom
computer algebra system and a co-author with Robert Sutor of the
"Axiom" book. He was also the manager, for many years, of the IBM
group that developed Axiom. He, along with David Chudnovsky, organized
the highly successful meetings on Computers and Mathematics that were
held at Stanford in 1986 and MIT in 1989. As a legacy of those
meetings, a Jenks Prize for outstanding contributions to software
engineering in computer algebra is being established. If you would
like to make a contribution to the prize fund, make a check to the
"Jenks Computer Algebra Prize" and send it to
Jenks Computer Algebra Prize
c/o Prof. B. F. Caviness
Dept. of Computer & Information Sciences
103 Smith Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
USA
A memorial service is scheduled for 11AM on Saturday, January 10, 2004 at
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
850 Wolcott Avenue
Beacon, NY
A more extensive death notice was published in the New York Times on
Sunday, January 4, 2004.
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