Very sad news indeed.
My very best to his family.
Steve
> 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
>
> =======
> 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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