[e2e] Roger Needham, 1935-2003

[Greg Minshall]

in case some of you may not have known, Roger Needham, a pioneer in computing 
(including networking) systems, passed away recently.

the following is from the SIGOPS monthly newsletter, edited by Amin Vahdat.
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Special Announcements

Title:  Roger Needham passes away
Summary:   Sadly, Roger Needham passed away February 28, 2003.  Roger
M Needham, born 1935, was in computing at Cambridge since 1956. His
1961 PhD thesis was on the application of digital computers to
problems of classification and grouping. In 1962 he joined the
Computer Laboratory, then called the Mathematical Laboratory, and has
been on the faculty since 1963. He took a leading role in Cambridge
projects in operating systems, time sharing systems, memory
protection, local area networks, and distributed systems over the next
twenty years.   Roger worked at intervals on a variety of topics in
security, being particularly known for work with Schroeder on
authentication protocols (1978) and with Burrows and Abadi on
formalism for reasoning about them (1989).   Roger graduated from the
University of Cambridge in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1956, and
then took the Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing in
1957. He has been in computing at Cambridge ever since. He succeeded
Maurice Wilkes as Head of the Computer Laboratory from 1980 to 1995,
was promoted Professor in 1981, elected to the Royal Society in 1985
and the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1993. He was appointed
Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 1996.
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Peter Newman, a former student of Roger's, pointed me at the following memoir 
written by Roger's wife.
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ksj/RogerNeedhamMemoir.pdf.
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Greg Minshall