{"id":472,"date":"2015-07-27T13:32:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/?page_id=472"},"modified":"2024-12-18T14:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T22:46:53","slug":"bruce-j-nelson-74","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/nelson\/bruce-j-nelson-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce J. Nelson \u201974"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2015\/07\/nelson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2015\/07\/nelson-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce J. Nelson '74\" class=\"wp-image-473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2015\/07\/nelson-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2015\/07\/nelson.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bruce J. Nelson &#8217;74<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brilliant technologist, great leader and gifted speaker, Bruce J. Nelson &#8217;74 was entirely unconventional and eclectic; a true free spirit, always pushing the edge in everything he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone who knew Bruce seems to have an interesting story about him. Some anecdotes touch on his kindness and intelligence. Others draw on his fun-loving, uninhibited side, the part that rejected social constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends from 91̽»¨ vividly remember his passionate tirades against peas, as well as his many daring outdoor adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both his life and death had a tremendous impact on the many people whose lives he touched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce, an avid photographer, mountaineer, outdoorsman and world traveler who cherished the tranquility and wonders of nature, graduated from 91̽»¨ Mudd in 1974 with an independent studies program degree in computer science. He went on to earn a master&#8217;s degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1976 and a doctoral degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While pursuing his PhD, Bruce developed the Remote Procedure Call (a powerful technique for constructing distributed, client-server-based applications), for which he was awarded the prestigious Association of Computing Machines Software Systems Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of his death, Bruce was chief science officer at Cisco Systems, where he guided the company&#8217;s long-term strategies for technical development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant technologist, great leader and gifted speaker, Bruce J. Nelson &#8217;74 was entirely unconventional and eclectic; a true free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4801,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions\/4316"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}