DIGITAL Workstations Engineering Alumni & Alumnae Page

updated 20 November 2008

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2008 Reunion

The 2008 Workstations Engineering Alumni & Alumnae Reunion was held on Wednesday, 17 September 2008 at the Pleasant Cafe, 36 Main Street, Maynard MA. Everyone seemed to have a good time in the "new" place. See 2008 attendees for a list of the people I remember seeing -- let me know if I missed anyone, er, "omitted" anyone -- of course I missed all of you who couldn't make it.

For info about last year's reunion, see 2007 attendees. For the 2006 reunion, see 2006 attendees. For the 2005 reunion, see 2005 attendees, 2005 pix

LinkedIn professional networking site

I'm considering wading through the entire dwsalum site and sending invitations to all of you to join this networking group. It seems pretty reasonable, with only a few uninvited emails from 'plaxo' as a downside. The upside is that you can update your own information, avoiding the months-long delay for me to get to it in dwsalum. See http://www.linkedin.com/ for more information.

Yahoo! Groups mailing list, dwsalum

I've set up a Yahoo! group as a DWS alumni/ae members-only mailing list. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dwsalum to figure out how to join, or send email to dwsalum-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you are wise in the ways of this techie stuff, as with the dwsalum web site, let me know who you are and why you should be allowed access to this list. If you're already on the dwsalum web site, you don't have to provide much in the way of justification. If your email address is not immediately recognizable, then you do have to tell me who you are. Sometimes email is sent to Your Friendly Moderator to approve membership requests, and sometimes the request just shows up in the Pending Approval list when YFM visits the group -- if you don't get approved right away you probably fell into the latter category so send me email directly and I'll take care of it.

Read the Welcome message for some idea of how the group will be run.

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Introduction

This is a list of the known whereabouts of former members of the Digital Equipment Corporation VAX / MIPS / Alpha / x86 Workstation Engineering groups. (DIGITAL was acquired by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1998, and Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002.) Current and former Hewlett-Packard (Compaq, DIGITAL) employees are welcome to submit their names to this list (see the Notices section). The URL for this page is http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1than/dwsalum.htm

This site has been discovered by some commercial users, including recruiters. Please do not SPAM this list -- you will only make everyone mad at you. I've taken out the mailto: links and garbled the email addresses a bit so it should be harder for the spammers.

Speaking of SPAM, some alumni were interested in finding ways to email and/or post job listings (both "jobs available" and "looking for work"), as well as possibly having a general alum discussion forum. I thought the criteria should include opt-in, moderated membership, multiple moderators for backup, restricted access for both reading and writing, members can post on their own (possibly including removal of outdated postings), email digest option (lumps postings into one daily email). Yahoo Groups seem to handle a lot of this, so I set one up. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dwsalum to figure out how to join, or send email to dwsalum-subscribe@yahoogroups.com if you are wise in the ways of this techie stuff -- as with the web site, let me know who you are and why you should be allowed access to this list. [If you're already on the web site, you don't have to provide much in the way of justification.] Read the Welcome message for some idea of how the group will be run.

Alumni/Alumnae

Where are they now?

 Names get placed in this penalty box if I don't have a corresponding email address. Any information in the regular listing is suspect. If you know where these fooks are or how to contact then, please have them send me an update.

Deceased

Links

Boilerplate Notices

Notice: This is the real URL for this web site: (http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1than/dwsalum.htm)

This site is intended to be used for purposes of keeping in touch and various forms of networking. This site is non-commercial: nothing is sold and nothing is advertised, but due diligence forces me to say that any information posted here is available to the world.

The site has been discovered by some commercial users, including recruiters. I'll try to find a sufficiently legal-looking notice to post that says that such use is prohibited. If necessary, I'll investigate making at least part of the site password protected.

I'd be happy to include pointers to personal or commercial home pages (or to résumés); sorry, but I can't post files. Please send me email with any omissions, corrections or updates.

To be listed, send me as much of the following information as you want published, and tell me what your connection is to the VAX / MIPS / Alpha / x86 Workstation Engineering groups. The list is limited to former employees of those groups, mainly because it's too much work to include anyone else; go set up an alumni page for your own cohort and, if it's relevant, I'll post a pointer to it.

name
email address
employer
title and/or position
work address
work voice number
work FAX number
work home page
home address
home phone
personal home page
pointer to résumé

If you want to be removed from the list, let me know. Sorry.

Send me suggestions for any improvements, or features you'd like to see. Note that this site is decidely low maintenance, so don't get carried away (unless you want to do the work).

The Alumni/ae site will be updated whenever I get around to it. New or modified listings are marked updated for at least a month. Email addresses that have bounced are marked "(?)", and will eventually get deleted.

Legal tidbits: I decline responsibility for errors, and offer to make only a half-hearted attempt to fix them (a) after I find out about it and (b) when I feel darned good and ready. And, as you know, there are no secrets on the Internet.

Send mail to Kenny House at *mail*to* house*AT*alum*DOT*mit*DOT*edu