GEORGE RILEY: GEORGIA TECH PROFESSOR Robert Dyer “Bob” Hilley Jr., ME 51, of Birmingham, Ala., on March 28. Benjamin Franklin King III, IM 50, of Mobile, Ala., on April 13. Russell D. Leverette, IM 54, of St. Simons Island, Ga., on April 30. Albert Henry “Al” Lindler, ME 50, of Newport News, Va., on May 17. Stanley B. Marx, EE 50, of New Orleans, La., on June 26. Arthur Brian Merry Jr., Phys 52, of Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., on April 14. Philip Joseph Nahser, Phys 59, of Burlington, N.C., on July 8. Max Wilbur Noah, Cls 52, of Fort Belvoir Va., on June 15. Eugene Harwell “Gene” Palmer Jr., IE 56, of St. Simons Island, Ga., on June 10. John Henry Quigg, IM 53, of Charlotte, N.C., on May 4. Robert E. Rankin, ME 54, of Lake Clarke Shores, Fla., on June 22. Donald Lee “Don” Reed, IM 57, of Burlington, N.C., on June 21. Andrew Axel “Andy” Saunders Jr., ME 57, of Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 3. Max Leland “Lee” Spruell, Text 57, of Lansdale, Pa., on June 30. S. Howard Smith, CE 53, of Atlanta, on July 16. Richard S. Swift, IM 59, of Hendersonville, N.C., on March 26. James B. Trimble, CE 54, MS CE 55, of Atlanta, on Jan. 27. Carl Sampy Williams, ChE 50, of Dublin, Ga., on June 1. William F. “Bill” Williams, ChE 57, of Asheville, N.C., on June 6. Dares Emery “Day” Wirt, IM 52, of Marietta, Ga., on April 26.
GEORGE RILEY, PHD CS 01, OF DECATUR, GA., ON JUNE 20. Riley was Yellow Jacket who returned to his alma mater and became a beloved faculty member. He passed away at Hospice Atlanta after waging a courageous battle with brain cancer. Riley joined the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty in 2001, after earning his PhD in Computer Science. In the mid 1990s, he decided to pursue a career in academia after a lengthy and successful career in industry, both as an employee of a major corporation and as owner and president of several small consulting companies. From 2013-2017, Riley served as ECE’s associate chair for graduate affairs. During his career in ECE, Riley had an outstanding reputation in teaching programming techniques, computer networking and engineering software design. He was recognized with the Richard M. Bass/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award in 2008, and he received the Georgia Tech W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award in 2009. Over the years, Riley was involved with K-12 outreach activities, including the ECE HOT Days camp for high school students, and was honored for this work with the ECE Outreach Award in 2010. Riley’s research focused on creating more efficient methods and tools for simulation of both wired and wireless computer networks. He also worked in Internet measurement methods, Internet routing protocols and development of numerical methods for monitoring and adapting finite queue sizes in packet-based networks. Riley
John Wilfred Witasick, CE 51, of Woodbury Heights, N.J., on June 16.
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Harold Edward Ashe Jr., IM 63, of Woodruff, S.C., on June 27.
also worked on the application of largescale simulation methods towards the simulation-based design and analysis of multi-core systems and on-chip networks. He graduated 12 PhD students and published over 120 refereed journal and conference papers. Always highly involved in the larger Georgia Tech community, Riley served as the chair of the Georgia Tech Executive Board, in the Academic Senate, and on the Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for six years, with two of those years spent as its chair. He also led a campus wide international plan task force in 2011. Riley is survived by his wife, Kris Nagel, PhD CS 06, also an academic professional in ECE, and his children, Patrick, Jennifer, Michael, CS 12, and Matthew, Cls 19.
William Hagood Bellinger, EE 63, of Stockbridge, Ga., on July 1. James Knox Brookshire Jr., CE 63, of Virginia Beach, Va., on June 13. Deloye Ray Burrell, Cls 65, Birmingham, Ala., on April 18.
Bayard McRae “Buck” Call, CE 60, of Atlanta, on June 25. Gilbert Carter, Phys 64, of Sandy Springs, Ga., on June 27. Raymond Greer Collison Jr., ChE 66, of Columbia, S.C., on July 1.
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