A. Nico Habermann (1932-1993) 



This "Blue Book" is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague, 

 A. Nico Habermann, who passed away on August 8, 1993. as this publication 

 was going to press, Nico served as Assistant Director of NSF for Computer 

 and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) for the past two years and 

 led NSF's commitment to developing the HPCC Program and enabling a 

 National Information Infrastructure. He came to NSF from Carnegie Mellon 

 University, where he was the Alan J. Perils Professor of Computer Science 

 and founding dean of the School of Computer Science. He was a visionary 

 leader who helped promote collaboration between computer science and other 

 disciplines and was devoted to the development and maturation of the 

 interagency collaboration in HPCC. We know Nico was proud to be part of 

 these efforts. 



