Michael Andre

I first met Bob in the very earliest days of the SPIE Medical Imaging. In those ancient times we met in an informal retreat with one paper presented at a time so we had lots of lively debates and got to know each other well. The meeting in question was held in the summer on the Stanford U campus and we all relished the chance to enjoy student dormitories and cafeterias once again! I still miss that low meeting registration fee...

Dating from the mid-1970's Bob was always extremely kind to me even on occasions when I might have been doing sloppy work. He was one of a handful of scientists that when they rose to make a comment at a conference I always stopped everything to listen. Through the years he never failed to reply to my questions or emails and he always added

significant wisdom to each one.

He was one amazing guy and I miss his counsel already.