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    Bob Pease Killed in Car Crash

    June 20, 2011
    It was about 11:55 pm on Father's Day when I sat down at my computer to write my editorial for our July issue. I needed to retrieve a research report from my stack of emails, so I logged into Microsoft Outlook. I skimmed over the weekend emails and stopped dead at one that said, "Bob Pease Killed in Car Crash." My first reaction was, "this must be some kind of joke." But when I saw the sender, Paul Rako of EDN, I knew it must be true. Horrible but true. The message in part said, "Bob Pease was killed when his car left the road as he drove from Jim Williams' memorial service yesterday." In an awful twist of fate, two of the great legends of analog engineering have passed in the same week. 

    It was about 11:55 pm on Father's Day when I sat down at my computer to write my editorial for our July issue. I needed to retrieve a research report from my stack of emails, so I logged into Microsoft Outlook. I skimmed over the weekend emails and stopped dead at one that said, "Bob Pease Killed in Car Crash." My first reaction was, "this must be some kind of joke." But when I saw the sender, Paul Rako of EDN, I knew it must be true. Horrible but true. The message in part said, "Bob Pease was killed when his car left the road as he drove from Jim Williams' memorial service yesterday." In an awful twist of fate, two of the great legends of analog engineering have passed in the same week. 

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    Joe Desposito Blog | Editor-in-chief

    Joe Desposito has held the position of editor-in-chief of Electronic Design since July, 2007. He first joined the publication in 1998 as a technology editor covering test and measurement but quickly expanded his coverage areas to include communications and consumer electronics. In May, 2000 Joe moved to sister publication, EE Product News, as editor-in-chief, overseeing the transition of that publication from print to web only and developing e-newsletters and a companion digital publication called eepn2.

    Prior to that, Joe worked as a project leader in PC Magazine’s renowned PC Labs and was one of four team members on the original PC Labs staff. In this capacity, he worked to develop the PC Labs benchmark tests for PC hardware and software. Joe holds a BEE from Manhattan College and has written many articles and several books on computers and electronics.

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