Kay Dekker
Jul. 8th, 2011 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nmgAs his partner Justin posted yesterday, Kay - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mhw - died on Wednesday night.
I first met Kay when I was a callow CS finalist at Warwick in the early 90s. He'd come up to DCS from Cov Uni for a research seminar on autostereoptic displays (odd what you remember), and stayed on to chat afterwards. I'd heard of Kay much earlier; I recall seeing him and his .sig all over the same bits of Usenet that I read, andgothick_matt had spoken about him quite a few times.
I can't say that he was the sole or even the main reason that I went on to a career in academia, but meeting a young, approachable (but not horribly intense) lecturer certainly helped.
My thoughts are with his friends and family.
mhw - died on Wednesday night. I first met Kay when I was a callow CS finalist at Warwick in the early 90s. He'd come up to DCS from Cov Uni for a research seminar on autostereoptic displays (odd what you remember), and stayed on to chat afterwards. I'd heard of Kay much earlier; I recall seeing him and his .sig all over the same bits of Usenet that I read, and
gothick_matt had spoken about him quite a few times. I can't say that he was the sole or even the main reason that I went on to a career in academia, but meeting a young, approachable (but not horribly intense) lecturer certainly helped.
My thoughts are with his friends and family.
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Date: 2011-07-08 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-08 12:57 pm (UTC)Think you just said in a sentance words I've been looking for for ages. Yeah, that's him.
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Date: 2011-07-08 03:56 pm (UTC)Ah crap. That's terrible news.
Shared a car with him on the way to Whitby one year. He seemed alright.