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ROLE LANDAUER 1927-1999 BY ROBERT W KEYES ROLE LANDAUER the source of much innovative thought about computing and computing devices, died on 27 April, 1999, after a short illness. He is survived by his wife, Muriel Landauer, three children, Karen Walsh, Carl, and Thomas, and three grandchildren.
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One depended parametric amplification of oscillators with a negative resistance element. Another used the negative resistance of the recently invented Esaki diode to form a circuit with two metastable states.
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IBM Research became recognized as one of the nation's premier industrial research establishments during the time that Rolf shared in its management. However, he had little time for his first love, physics and its relevance to information processing, and in 1969 he gave up management and was appointed an IBM fellow.
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He arranged that IBM Research hire Bennett. Bennett and Landauer in Scientific American eventually explained their combined thinking about the subject for a wide audience.
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He received an honorary degree from the Technion in Israel and was elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences. A memorial symposium at the IBM Research Laboratory in September 1993 attended by many colleagues and friends honored Rolf's long career.
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