Ted N. White, 1947 - 1994 students, who could always count on his undivided attention and care~l support. With the many research projects that he coordinated he aimed at combining design methods from technical sciences and knowledge from social sciences in order to develop a design approach focusing on the user of technology. Technique, to him, was the "servant of the people" - that was his criterion for Ergonomics. His scientific publications testify to this view, and he was constantly looking for new ideas and possibilities in this respect. Friday, October 28, 1994, Ted White died. At the start of the summer holiday he was still energetically working day and night, planning a new curriculum "Technical Ergonomics" for Twente University, and strongly engaged with the completion of several masters theses and a Ph.D. dissertation. He was working on applications for research grants. His death was a complete shock for most of us. Only some of his relatives and friends knew he suffered an illness from which there was no recovery. He himself had known since July, but, with his optimistic character, he hoped to be granted at least several years to accomplish some of his ambitious plans. In the Dutch Academic world Ted played a major role in HCI education and research. Ted was head of the Ergonomics Department in Twente, and part-time Professor in Cognitive Ergonomics at the University of Utrecht. His lectures were much appreciated by the Ted succeeded in finding a broad audience for his ideas: in industry and health care institutions, and with colleagues all over the world. The number of professional societies in which he participated actively is too large to present more than a selection. He was active in the Dutch Ergonomics Society, the Dutch Computer Society-Working Group on Human-Computer Interaction, the European Chapter of the Human Factors Society and the ACM SIGCHI. As chairman of the Dutch HCI Working Group Ted was a stimulating factor behind the bi-annual conferences, the most recent of which was changed by his initiative into a real international event. As a logical consequence he aimed at a CHI conference in Europe, hence, in 1993 Ted was one of the general cochairs of INTERCHI '93, the largest international conference on HCI ever organised in Europe. The theme, "Bridges between Worlds" reflected his continuous plea for cooperation between industry and academia, between various disciplines in the Ergonomics and HCI domain, and, at an international level, between HCI "cultures". Only 46 years were allowed to him, much too short to complete his many initiatives. In the world of HCI we will remember his inspiring personality, and his attention to both global issues and the details of everyday human life. Our sympathy is with his wife Charlotte and his three young children. For more information on the work of Ted White, look at URL: ftp://reddwarf.utwente.nl/pub/www/ TedWhite.html. Gerrit C. van der leer January1995 Volume27, Number ii SIGCHI Bulletin

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