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 High Performance Computing and Communications Program and enabling a National Information Infrastructure. He came to NSF from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science and founding dean of the School of Computer Science. He was a visionary leader who helped promote collaboration between computer scientists 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.