In Memory of Walt Kosinski by Jim Adams Walter J. Kosinski, the founder and first chairman of SIGCOMM, died of cancer on December 14, 1994, in Greenwich, Connecticut, at the age of 63. Wait was born and raised in Greenwich and graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1953 with a degree in mathematics. He entered the computer field in the mid-fifties and spent most of his early career in southern California and Arizona where he developed data communications systems and applications for his own and other high-tech companies. In 1982 Walt returned to Connecticut as an independent consultant with frequent teaching positions at universities in the U.S. and overseas. At the time of his death he was on a special assignment in the computer science department at the University of Silessia in Poland. An innovative thinker and organizer, Walt was actively involved as an ACM volunteer throughout his professional life. He was a popular speaker at chapter meetings and conducted some of ACM's earliest full-day professional development seminars on time-sharing systems. In 1969 he organized SIGCOMM and chaired its first conference on the Optimization of Data Communications Systems. He spearheaded the revitalization of the Westchester-Fairfield chapter in 1986 and served as its chairman. In 1987 he chaired the SIGCOMM Workshop on Frontiers in Computer Communications Technology in Stowe, Vermont. Walt is survived by his son Kevin and daughters Bridget, Kara, Erin and Molly, all residents of California, and his sister Frances Posluzny of Greenwich. ACM SIGCOMM -214- Computer Communication Review
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In memory of Walt Kosinski
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