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158 TUGboat, Volume 30 (2009), No. 2 MacTEX at work: Jonathan Kew and Dick Koch. Martha Kummerer, our excellent tour guide, with Nelson Beebe. Tim Arnold, Jim Hefferon, Andrew Mertz, and Bill Slough. Background: Karl Berry, Bob Neveln, Bob Alps, Leyla Akhmadeeva, Chris Rowley. The TEX pack on tour. TUG 2009 gathering. Front row: Dennis Claudio, Terri Fizer, Dorothy DiFranco, Michele Hake, Bram Otten, Martha Kummerer, Ross Moore, Tim Arnold, Kaveh Bazargan, Cheryl Ponchin, Sue DeMeritt, Jin-Hwan Cho. Second row: Jennifer Claudio, Andrew Mertz, Jonathan Kew, Leyla Akhmadeeva, Mirko Janc, Steve Grathwohl, Bob Alps, Frank Quinn, Barbara Beeton, Dave Walden, Ned Hummel, Bob Neveln, Dick Koch. Back row: Hans Hagen, Idris Hamid, Klaus Höppner, Gianluca Puliti, Joe Corneli, Boris Veytsman, Nelson Beebe, Arthur Reutenauer, Aditya Mahajan, Karl Berry, William Slough, Herb Schulz, Paulo Ney de Souza, Peter Cholak, Jim Hefferon, Morten Høgholm, Chris Rowley. Photos courtesy of Jennifer Claudio and Alan Wetmore.
TUGboat, Volume 30 (2009), No. 2 159 Profile of Eitan Gurari (1947–2009) Eitan Gurari died unexpectedly on June 22, 2009. The TEX community mourns the loss of this important contributor. Eitan Gurari was born in March 1947 in Haifa, Israel, and grew up in Tivon, a small town near Haifa. He met his wife, Shaula, who was born and raised in Haifa, atadance. Theyhadfivechildren: Adaughter Inbal, sons Itai and Erez, and twin daughters Netta and Danna. Eitan’s son, Itai, says, “My father’s sole hobbies were his work and family. He enjoyed both immensely. Also, in recent years he and my mother began traveling a lot.” The children had all grown to adulthood at the time of Eitan’s death. Eitan’s 1989 book, An Introduction to the Theory of Computation, was dedicated, To Shaula, Inbal, Itai, Erez, Netta, and Danna. Eitan was educated at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology where, in 1971, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. He continued his studies there, but changed his focus to computer science, receiving a Masters degree in 1974. At that point he, his wife, and their then only child, a daughter, moved to the United States where Eitan studied at the University of Minnesota, which granted him a PhD degree in computer science in 1978. Eitan’s faculty advisor at the University of Minnesota was Oscar Ibarra. After graduation from the University of Minnesota, Eitan moved to the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee, where until 1980 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He next moved to the State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Computer Science, where he served as an assistant professor until 1982. In 1982, Eitan moved to the Ohio State University, where he was an associate professor teaching computer science and doing research until his death. At Ohio State, Eitan taught a wide variety of courses, suggesting that he pitched in to teach whatever needed teaching and that he used the need to teach a course in a new area as a way of broadening his own knowledge. His web site at the time of his death listed the following courses that he had taught (we don’t know if this is a complete list): Introduction to Computer Graphics, 1993; Introduction to Computer Networks, 1998; Introduction to Data Structures, 1999; Introduction to Automata and Formal Languages, 1999; Introduction to Programming with Java, 2003; Advanced Technologies with Java, 2004; Programming Challenges, 2004; XML Technologies, 2005; Compiler Design and Implementation, 2008; Introduction to Programming with C ++, 2008; Data Structures for Information Systems, 2008; Introduction to Database Systems, 2009. Early in his career, Eitan’s interest was in the theory of computation, and between 1978 and 1987 he had 18 papers in this field published in refereed journals, many of them co-authored with Oscar Ibarra. Two typical titles are “Two-Way Counter Machines and Diophantine Equations” and “Some Decision Problems Concerning Sequential Transducers and Checking Automata”. During this period Eitan also had six papers published in conference or symposium proceedings. The culmination of this work appears to have been his already mentioned 1989 book on the theory of computation. Eitan’s obituary notice on the website of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Ohio State University said the following: Dr. Gurari started his career as a theoretician. He made fundamental contributions to automata and complexity theory. His textbook, An Introduction to the Theory of Computation, was highly praised, and he published frequently in JACM, SIAM Computing, ACM STOC, and IEEE FOCS. The obituary notice continued, After joining OSU, Gurari switched his research focus, starting to build software systems. We can see this transition from his writings and presentations in the succeeding years. 1991 “A WYSIWYG Literate Programming System” (Preliminary Report), with J. Wu, Nineteenth ACM Computer Science Conference. 1994 TEX and L ATEX: Drawing and Literate Programming, A manual for DraTEX, AlDraTEX, ProTEX, and AlProTEX, McGraw-Hill Writing with TEX, McGraw-Hill. 1997 “A Demonstration of TEX4ht”, TUG’97 “Drawing with DraTEX”, TUG’97 Profile of Eitan Gurari (1947–2009)
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