[NotiAMCA] Gene Golub, 1932 - 2007

[Victorio Sonzogni]

From: Cleve Moler <Cleve.Moler en mathworks.com>
Date:
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:55:42 -0500
Subject: Gene Golub, 1932 - 2007

Gene Golub, founder of the NA Digest, passed away today, Friday,
November 16,
at the Stanford University Hospital.  He was 75 years
old.

Gene returned home to Stanford recently from a trip to
Hong Kong.  He was
planning to leave again Tuesday on another trip,
this one to Zurich where the
ETH was to honor him with a special
degree.  Instead, Sunday night he went to
the emergency room because
he was "feeling lousy".  On Tuesday, he was found
to have
AML, acute myelogenous leukemia, a form of cancer that affects the
white blood cells.  This is a potentially curable disease and he was
expecting
to begin chemotherapy today.   But serious complications
developed suddenly
over night.

I was able to see Gene for
an hour last night and he was in reasonably good
spirits.  Mike
Saunders was trying to get Gene's laptop to use dial-up over
the
hospital's phone system because Gene said he was a couple of days
behind
on his email.  I was planning to get a wireless card for his
machine today. 
None of us had any idea how suddenly the situation
would worsen.

The Stanford iCME students have created a
memorial blog at
http://genehgolub.blogspot.com .

Our
community has lost its foremost member.  He was a valued colleague and
friend.  Goodbye, Gene. 

  -- Cleve Moler