For those of you who knew HP's Barney Oliver...

> > OLIVER REMEMBERED.  The late Barney Oliver, director of research for
> > Hewlett-Packard for nearly three decades, will be inducted into the
> > Silicon Valley Engineering Council's Engineering Hall of Fame on
> > February 20.  Dr. Frederick Terman, mentor of Bill Hewlett and Dave
> > Packard and former HP director, was the first inductee in 1990, and
> > the co-founders themselves received the same professional honor in
> > 1991.  Dr. William Perry of Stanford University, who recently retired
> > as U.S. Secretary of Defense, will be the keynote speaker at a
> > banquet at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel.
> >
> > In addition, Oliver's remarkable breadth of intellectual interests
> > will be celebrated by the publication in mid-March of "The Selected
> > Papers of Bernard M. Oliver" under the auspices of HP Laboratories
> > (publisher, Wendy Earl Productions).  The 450-page book is divided
> > into four sections:  Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI),
> > edited by Charles Seeger of SETI; Physics and Mathematics, edited by
> > Len Cutler, Distinguished Contributor, Technical Staff of HPL;
> > Electronic and Electrical Engineering, edited by Tom Hornack, Senior
> > Contributor, Technical Staff of HPL; and Educational and Social
> > Issues, edited by Zvonko Fazarinc, retired HPL laboratory director,
> > who coordinated the entire project.  The book contains a tribute to
> > Oliver by Bill Hewlett and a foreword by Joel Birnbaum, senior vice
> > president - R&D and director of HP Laboratories.  The limited edition
> > will be available free to HP Labs employees.
> >
> > The book contains a sampling of Oliver's work during his
> > distinguished career, including speeches and some 100 papers, mostly
> > unpublished until now.  A bibliography listing his 60 patents and all
> > his publications is included.

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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