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Computer industry pioneer and visionary cofounder (with his wife Adelle Tomash) of the Charles Babbage Foundation (CBF) and the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Erwin Tomash passed away on 10 December 2012. In the late 1940s, Tomash was an engineer at Engineering Research Associates (ERA), one of two firms that launched the US computer industry. He later founded and led Dataproducts Corporation, a Fortune 500 computer peripherals and core memory firm. Erwin and Adelle Tomash's insights and generosity in founding, supporting, and advising CBF and CBI have had a profound and continuing impact on the infrastructure for research and publication of scholarship on computer and software history. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This Events & Sightings installment covers a range of recent events focusing on the history of computing. Dave Walden recaps a Who Is Who in the Internet World (WiWiW) project Internet pioneers meeting in Washington D.C. Akihiko Yamada describes the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) ELIS Revival Festival. The department also includes current events and offerings at the Computer History Museum and an obituary of Herb Grosch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]