SGML: Memory of Yuri Rubinsky (1952-1996)

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From: michael@textscience.com (Michael Leventhal)
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Subject: Re: Yuri Rubinsky (1952-1996)
Date: 26 Jan 1996 09:32:50 -0800
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I last saw Yuri in December at the SGML Conference conference
where I had the privilege to speak at a session he chaired.
I asked him to donate software for an SGML class I will be
teaching - of course, being Yuri, I had no doubt that my
request would be warmly received and it was.  Michael
Sperberg-McQueen spoke very truly about the spirit of
fellowship which Yuri brought into the SGML community and
which will remain as one of his legacies.  It was this
spirit and the passion and learning of Yuri and the
people who loved Yuri that led me to find my metier in
SGML.  Thank you, Mr. Rubinsky.

My memorial to Yuri Rubinsky will be to teach my publishing
students about the work in SGML for the visually-impaired,
another of Yuri's many contributions.  Yuri is blest to have 
given knowledge which will enlighten many and be forever 
a part of the intellectual inheritance of countless people.

Michael Leventhal
Founder
Text Science