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Ken Kennedy passes away

From Supercomputing Online this morning:

Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice University’s nationally ranked computer science program and one of the world’s foremost experts on high-performance computing, died Feb. 7 at a Houston hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 61.

I crossed paths with Professor Kennedy several times, and was always richer for the experience. His leadership will be missed.


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