Ralph Griswold

Links

Major Links

• http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon - official home of the Icon Programming Language project.
• http://www.legacy.com/tucson/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=19473161 - newspaper Obituary with link to a Guest Book
• http://www.cs.arizona.edu/news/articles/200610-griswold.html - University of Arizona Obituary
• http://www.cs.arizona.edu/news/articles/200610-memorial.html - Ralph E. Griswold Memorial Endowment.
• http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=135 - a 1990 interview with Ralph and his wife for the Charles Babbage Institute

An Active Retirement

Ralph may have retired in 1995, but he remained active through 2001 as both of these links attest to:

• http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/analyst/backiss/IA66.pdf - the last edition of The Icon Analyst
• http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~ralph/ - Ralph's last University home page with link to his weaving page

Personal Link

The Third Workshop on the Icon Programming Language (1992) marked the last time that I saw Ralph and his wife. You can read an eight page overview of the conference at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ftp/doc/ipd206.pdf, including pictures of all the participants. As well as Ralph, his wife and me, I should point out Alan Beale, who was responsible for the last IBM mainframe version of Icon.

Other Links

• http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10102/ur0610a - In Memoriam from Unix Review
• http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1780 - discussion thread started by Ralph's death, from Lambda the Ultimate, The Programming Languages Weblog
• http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/icon/icon.html - the University of Michigan's Icon page
• http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/10/ralph_griswold_dies.shtml - Phil Windley's reflections on the growing number of computer pioneers who have passed away

Jon Pearkins
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