Obituaries.Robert D. Mitchell, 78, retired, Beardsley & Piper Div. (Pettibone Corp.), Chicago, died in December. An AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System member for 21 years, Mitchell received an AFS Award of Scientific Merit in 1979 "for the coauthorship of the concept and development of the Zero Mechanical State program accepted by the industry as a key procedure for safety in operations." William S. Hackett, 83, retired consultant, died in December. A member of both AFS and the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE International (SAE) is a professional organization for mobility engineering professionals in aerospace, automotive and the commercial vehicle industries. The Society is a standards development organization for the engineering of powered vehicles of all kinds, including , Hackett also worked for General Motors Corp.'s Central Foundry Div., Saginaw, Michigan Saginaw is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 61,799. The 2006 population estimate was 57,523.[1] It is the county seat of Saginaw County[2] ; Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Cleveland and ; and Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Youngstown, Ohio. In 1977, he received an AFS Award of Scientific Merit "for pioneering and innovative use of engineering disciplines to modern coremaking and molding technology." |
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