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For more than forty years I have learned from Brian Randell, in the first seven years by studying his writings, and later by many enjoyable and insightful personal interactions. On April 7, 2011 I had the privilege to present the after-dinner speech on the occasion of Brian’s 75th birthday party. Since a British after dinner speech is a very special event, I was awaiting this evening with a lot of excitement. The following notes summarize the main ideas of this after dinner talk.
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Kopetz, H. (2011). What I Learned from Brian. In: Jones, C.B., Lloyd, J.L. (eds) Dependable and Historic Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24541-1_1
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