[seek] joseph goguen
Ferdinando Villa
ferdinando.villa at uvm.edu
Wed Jul 5 10:29:32 PDT 2006
I think it would be nice to display a link and remembrance on the main page
of the SEEK site.
ferdinando
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Ferdinando Villa, Associate Research Professor, Ecoinformatics
Ecoinformatics Collaboratory, Gund Inst. for Ecol. Economics and Dept. of
Botany
University of Vermont http://ecoinformatics.uvm.edu
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> Ludaescher
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:29 PM
> To: Deana Pennington
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> Subject: Re: [seek] joseph goguen
>
>
> This is very sad news. I had only recently learned that he
> had been ill for some time, but don't know the nature of his illness.
>
> The CS department web site (http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/index.php)
> currently displays the following page
>
> In Memoriam
>
> Professor Joseph Amadee Goguen passed away peacefully in the
> early morning of July 3, 2006. He was in the company of his
> wife Ryoko, daughter Alice, and a few close family friends.
> He is also survived by another daughter Heather and a son Healfdene.
>
> Professor Goguen was a professor in the Department of
> Computer Science and Engineering at the University of
> California, San Diego. He joined the department in January
> 1996. He was the Director of the Meaning and Computation Lab,
> and had previously directed the program in Advanced
> Manufacturing. He came to UCSD from Oxford University, where
> from 1988 to 1996 he was the Professor of Computing Science
> in the Programming Research Group at Oxford University,
> Director of the Centre for Requirements and Foundations, and
> a Fellow of St. Anne's College. Prior to that, he was at SRI
> International (formerly called Stanford Research Institute)
> in Menlo Park, California, where he held the position of
> Senior Staff Scientist as well as being a Senior Member and
> head of the Programming Languages Area of the Center for the
> Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He
> had also taught at Berkeley, Chicago and UCLA, where he was a
> full Professor of Computer Science.
>
> Professor Goguen held a Bachelor degree from Harvard and a
> Ph.D. from Berkeley, both in mathematics. In 1999 he won a
> Senior Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of
> Science, and he held a Research Fellowship in the
> Mathematical Sciences at the IBM Watson Research Center where
> he organized the "ADJ" group, as well as three Senior
> Visiting Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh. In
> addition, he was a Distinguished Lecturer in Parallel
> Computation at Syracuse University, has given distinguished
> lectures at Glasgow University, UC Irvine, the Universities
> of Texas, Lisbon, and Illinois, and has given invited
> addresses at conferences on formal methods, metaphor theory,
> software re-use, requirements engineering, semiotics,
> distributed systems, and sociology. His listing in the
> CiteSeer most cited authors in computer science has varied
> between about 85 and 120.
>
> Professor Goguen was a pioneering researcher in many diverse
> areas: software engineering (especially specification,
> modularization, architecture, requirements and evolution);
> database integration and ontologies; user interface design;
> new media art; logic and theorem proving; discourse analysis;
> sociology of technology and science; cognitive semantics;
> object oriented, relational and functional programming and
> their combinations; semiotics; and fuzzy logic. Prof. Goguen
> is particularly known for his role in founding algebraic
> specification, including abstract data types and the OBJ
> language, the module system of which has influenced the
> designs of the Ada, ML, C++, and LOTOS languages. His
> theoretical work includes the algebraic theory of abstract
> data types, initial model semantics, institutions, order
> sorted algebra, parameterized programming, and most recently,
> database integration, hidden algebra, and algebraic
> semiotics. He also had research interests in the philosophy o
> f art (especially music), computer security, music, poetry,
> and philosophy of computation.
>
> Professor Goguen was elected a Fellow of the International
> Fuzzy System Association, was nominated for a Turing Award,
> and was a Fellowship at the Stanford Center for Advanced
> Studies in the Social Sciences. He had received awards for
> two websites that he maintained, a "Creativity Award" from
> Art & Technology for the UCSD Semiotic Zoo site, and a "Key
> Resource Award in Formal Methods" from Links2Go for the
> hidden algebra site.
>
> Professor Goguen graduated a total of 29 doctoral students,
> including three from the University of Chicago, two from
> Stanford, seven from UCLA, 14 from Oxford, and four from UCSD.
>
> During the last week of June 2006, a three-day festschrift
> was held to honor his contributions to the field of computer
> science on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Over 40
> computer scientists from around the world gathered at UCSD to
> recognize Professor Goguen's achievements. Professor Goguen
> was able to attend the festschrift, and used the occasion to
> encourage his colleagues to continue to work together. A
> volume containing papers from the festschrift has been
> published by Springer-Verlag.
>
>
> >>> On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:34:44 -0600
> >>> Deana Pennington <dpennington at lternet.edu> wrote:
> DP>
> DP> We just heard from Jenny Wang that Joseph Goguen passed
> away Monday,
> DP> after an illness. I don't know any other details, but
> wanted to let
> DP> everyone know.
> DP>
> DP> Deana
> DP>
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