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mit e-club sadly notes passing of alum dr. HOWARD AUSTIN, phd ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (richard shyduroff)
Thu Apr 19 16:23:46 2001
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:22:52 -0400
From: richard shyduroff <rdshydur@MIT.EDU>
all-
if you know alum and friends who knew howard recently, or long ago
around the ai-lab or lcs, lcsi, cambridge-atari research labs and
other projects, and you think they are not local list readers, please
relay this to them and let them know they can get further information
from me <rdshydur> or jacqueline karaaslanian at <jk@media> thanks. - r
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(originally posted to e-club & our seminar lists earlier today)
Subject: e-club sadly notes passing of alum dr. HOWARD AUSTIN, phd ...
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:32:22 -0400
From: richard shyduroff <rdshydur@MIT.EDU>
e-club member howard austin died tuesday.
family and friends get together friday 7pm.
funeral saturday ... details below ...
all-
i am so very saddened to report the death of long time friend,
personal and e-club advisor, mit alum dr. HOWARD AUSTIN, phd.
howard did his early best work at the ai-lab with professors and
friends marvin minsky and seymour papert, thereafter for many
years on wall street, and later, when he could count among his
numerous clients those of the order-of-magnitude of george soros.
new and younger e-club regulars and students met howard during the
past two years when he was senior vice president of research at
newcogen, where he worked to co-found this new kind of vc firm, a
hard sciences and technology, what-i-liked-to-call, meta-incubator,
with mit professor noubar afeyan.
apropos, i think, of howard's advisories to us in the e-club and
our start-up seminars, his doctoral research at mit included
studying how children teach one-another to juggle.
on a personal note i am sorry i will never again be able to
introduce this unique and very human expert being to new students
and young alum; and howard, i'm sure you know i didn't always
act on your sage advice on so many levels, but i'm re-thinking
always certain of those issues and people in tech entrepreneurship.
the brief if more formal news below was written by mutual and very
good old friend e-club member and advisor jacqueline karaaslanian.
please do send howard's wife and brother and jk cards in sympathy.
thanks all,
- r
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from: <jk@media.mit.edu>
On Tuesday April 17, our very dear friend Howard Austin died of
a heart attack.
The funeral service will be at the United Methodist Church,
at 430 Walnut street in Newton, on Saturday April 21st at 11am.
Family and friends will also gather on Friday April 20th
from 5 to 9pm at the Blackington Funeral Home,
at 1479 Washington Street in Newton.
If you wish to send mail to Howard's wife Honor Mc Clellan Austin
and the Austin Family, here are the their addresses:
Mrs Honor McClellan Austin
125 Upland Road
Newton, Waban 02168
<hem@world.std.com>
Larry Austin
1106 Alden Road
Alexandria, VA 22308
<AustinEsq@aol.com>
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