This is very sad. I only met Dave through the List but was impressed by his
rare blend of intelligence, humility and common-sense. We will miss him.
Condolences to the family.
David Kahn
H.K. EyeCan Ltd.
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From: "Alastair Gale" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:00 PM
Subject: [EM_LIST] David Wooding
Dear all
(With apologies for any cross posting)
I regret to report the untimely death last night of Dr David Wooding, aged
38, the moderator of this eye movement list and Reader in the Applied Vision
Research Institute (formerly the Institute of Behavioural Sciences).
Dave had been diagnosed with cancer in late 2002 and had since undergone
several major operations as well as long chemotherapy treatment. These had
seemed to go well and up until late last year he was fully planning on
returning to work - but unfortunately the disease then returned. Despite
his illness he had carried on with his academic work as much as he could.
Those of you who met Dave will remember him for his intellect, wit, humour
and whole-hearted dedication to research and the search for knowledge. He
was not one to agree lightly with another's point of view if he had the
slightest question about the veracity of some fact (possibly reflecting his
training as a physicist). This was no more apparent than a few years back
when we started a short project meeting (scheduled to last an hour or so)
which eventually ran non-stop for two days as he sought to ensure that
everyone fully understood all the details. After much 'blood on the carpet'
we all left with a deeper understanding.
Dave led many innovations related to eye movement research: he started this
list, instigated and ran the independent list of eye movement equipment
(which will continue in his honour), organised and ran the National Gallery
eye movement experiment which had over 5,000 participants and most recently
he was ensconsed in developing new techniques for the analyses of large
quantities of eye movement data. Some indication of his legacy can be found
at http://ibs.derby.ac.uk/~dave/ . We were jointly just starting some major
new vision-related projects which will run over the next three years.
If those who knew him care to email me any message then I will pass these
on to his wife and three very young children as a momento of their father.
I will take over moderation of this list for a while and then hand it on to
a member of my staff.
Alastair
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Prof Alastair Gale
Applied Vision Research Institute
University of Derby
Kingsway House
Kingsway
Derby DE22 3HL
UK
tel: 0044 (0)1332 593131
fax: 0044 (0)1332 593176
web: http://ibs.derby.ac.uk
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