[GreenKeys] OT: A Real Engineer RIP

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Obituary
Claude A. R. Kagan
October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012

Claude Ancelme Roichel Kagan of Hopewell Township grew up in Orval  
France and was educated in France, England and the US. He received a  
bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (1948) and Electrical Engineering  
(1950), and a MS in Electrical Engineering (1950), from Cornell  
University. Served in the US Army Corps of Engineers during WW II and  
the Signal Corps during the Korean War.

Claude worked for AT&T/Western Electric from 1953 to 1988, mostly at  
the Engineering Research Center outside Princeton, and later as a  
consultant for SAM76 Inc. His work included communications,  
manufacturing systems, and visionary work on computers in the home and  
personal computing.

In addition to thinking about the future, Claude collected historical  
technology and filled his barn with artifacts, including a Burroughs  
205 vacuum tube computer. Fortunately the PDP-8 and highlights of his  
collection were donated to the InfoAge Museum before the barn burned  
in 2009.

He was a radio amateur (KE2XY, W2UUI), and professional engineer.  
Claude was active in the IEEE and related organizations for many years  
and received the IEEE Computer Society medal for extraordinary  
contributions in 1984.

Claude was an active mentor who guided many young people into  
computing and engineering through the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. computer club  
for youth, the Cornell alumni network, and informally.

Burial was private and a memorial event is being organized. In lieu of  
flowers a scholarship fund is being created in his honor. See www.RESISTORS.org 
  for details.