Laws@KL.SRI.COM (Ken Laws) (09/29/87)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 87 15:38:40 PDT From: Amy Lansky <lansky@venice.ai.sri.com> Subject: sad news I thought I should let people know of a very unfortunate accident that occurred this weekend. Slava Prazdny (formally at SPAR/FLAIR, most recently at FMC) died this past Sunday in a hang-gliding accident. There will be a memorial service October 7. I will let you know of more details when I find out. -Amy ------- -------
baird@cel.fmc.COM (Michael Baird) (09/29/87)
As many of you know by now, Slava Prazdny died Saturday, September 19th, in a hang-gliding accident, high in the California mountains. He is survived by his wife, Dagmar Dolan, their as yet unborn child, and his 15 year old daughter Bronja Prazdny. Slava was 38. He was with FMC's Santa Clara AI Center during the past two years, and before that at Schlumberger's Palo Alto Research Center / Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research. Memorial Services will be held at 3:15 p.m., Wednesday October 7th, 1987, outdoors in Foothills Park, operated by the City of Palo Alto, just a few miles up Page Mill Road "west" of I-280. Flowers may be brought to the memorial. Dagmar invites members of the AI community to attend. It is suggested that you enter the park gate (it says for Palo Alto residents only -- but tell the guard that you are attending the memorial) around 3 p.m. From the parking area find the "Lee" grove (two large redwoods) beyond the picnic tables. Services will be informal, as Slava would have wanted them to be. Slava had published over 60 refereed papers, and was recognized internationally as an expert in many aspects of human and machine perception. His latest works in stereo vision and adaptive "neural" networks were deemed scientific breakthroughs. A beautiful Redwood tree in Big Basin State Park will be dedicated in Slava's name. This will be a pleasant place we can go to remember Slava. The family has asked that donations be sent in his name to The Sempirvirens Fund, 2483 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, CA 94043. Mike Baird baird@cel.fmc.com (408) 289-4932