Hi Arvind,

Regrets that I am not able to be at the festivities held in your honor.
One of my sons will be getting his PhD at Berkeley on the opposite coast - if not for this
I would be there to help celebrate.

I had such fun collaborating with you and the students, postdocs, professors and
staff members of the dataflow group. To this day, I can't think of a better way than to have spent my sabbaticals
from LANL with all of you. I remember sitting on the couch (futon maybe?) in your office and
learning about the intricacies of the architecture and the Id language.

The whole investigation was long-term university research at its best - a deep understanding of parallelism. I came
from the Fortran world where we had to uncover it (parallelism) and, behold, in the dataflow world, we had to stop it from
gushing out.

Do you remember coming out to the New Mexico mountains, staying in Santa Fe and giving your seminars here? I think they
were over 3-4 days. People here still remind me of your talks and the ideas discussed - "Great language, Id,
but no I/O".

My professional life was heightened by my association with you. Many thanks to you and your group.

Olaf Lubeck