Amarel Celebration

December 20, 2002

Saul Amarel, D.Sc.,Alan M. Turing Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, passed away in Princeton, NJ on Wednesday, December 18, just as the celebration of his retirement from Rutgers after 33 years of leadership in Computer Science nationally and internationally, was in preparation for December 20.

Presented here are recordings of that celebration by family, colleagues, friends, and others.

• First, a complete recording from a back-of-the-room camera.
• These are from a closer camera, and broken down by speaker.
  • Tomasz Imielinski
  • Joseph Seneca
  • Eugene Young
  • Saul Levy
  • Haym Hirsh
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Sri Srideran
  • Robert Vichnevetsky
  • Three of Saul's Grad Students [1], [2], [3].
  • Donald Smith
  • Kasimir Kulikowski (The slides referred to by Dr. Kulikowski can be found here, from his presentation at Dr. Amarel's 70th birthday.)
  • Irina Amarel
  • Dan Amarel
  • Wrap up
• Here are a couple of pages from the messages of rememberance signed at the celebration [1], [2].
• Here is a view of the reception just before the celebration. [1], [2].