Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts

Saturday, October 8, 2022

RIP: Ryan Ding, 53, head of Huawei's Enterprise and Carrier Groups

Huawei noted the unexpected death of Ryan Ding Yu, president of both its enterprise business group and its carrier business group, on Friday at the age of 53. He joined the company in 1996 and served in a number of top executives roles in recent years, including on the deputy chairman of the supervisory board, and president of the corporate leadership management department.

Local media report that Mr. Ding collapsed after taking part in a 28km run.

"It is with deep sadness that we confirm that Mr. Ding Yun, Vice Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Company, passed away in the early hours of October 7, 2022, aged 53, due to sudden illness."




https://www.huawei.com/en/executives/supervisory-board/ding-yun

Thursday, December 17, 2020

RIP: Norman Abramson, co-founder of ALOHAnet

Norman Abramson, one of the founders of the ALOHAnet, passed away on December 1, 2020, at the age of 88.

In 1971, Abramson, who was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, teamed up with faculty member Franklin Kuo, other colleagues and graduate students, to lauch ALOHAnet, the first wireless packet data network. ALOHAnet pioneered the use of medium access (ALOHA random access) and experimental ultra high frequency (UHF) for its operation. The concept of random access, allowing clients to transmit data when ready and allowing for packet collisions, was later adopted as the basis of Ethernet.