In Memory of JQ Johnson, 1951-2012

Stanford Magazine: John Quincy "J.Q." Johnson III, MA '77 (political science), of Eugene, Ore., July 7, at 61, of cancer of the appendix. He ran the Stanford LOTS computer system and also worked in the computer center. An administrator in information technology at the U. of Oregon for 25 years, he was the director of scholarly communications and instructional support at the university libraries. Survivors: his wife of 28 years, Jennifer Freyd, PhD '83; and his children, Theodore, '07, Philip and Sasha Johnson-Freyd.

Memorial Fund

Memorial Gathering, 30 July 2012

Memorial Program (Layout by Amanda Garcia, University of Oregon Libraries)
Remembrances and Remarks (in order of delivery)
- Deb Carver
- Jennifer Freyd (read by Pam Birrell)
- Theo Johnson-Freyd (read by Pam Birrell)
- Gwen Acton
- Glenn Gordon
- Mark Watson
- Nargas Oskui-Tabrizi
- Tim Boshart (read by Nargas Oskui-Tabrizi)

Dedications and Awards

Compilations

Other Remembrances and Remarks (in order of receipt)

Old History Discovered in 2021

This from 1980. (Search for "Johnson")
- Philip Johnson-Freyd's explanation: Richard Stallman wrote a replacement software for "spooling" the first laser printer ("dover") so that all the users would get notified when the printer jammed. This was the very first piece of "Free Software" and spawned the "free, libre, open source software" movement. This is a discussion of bugs in Stallman's new program. JQ's debugging notes are in this document.
This is from 1981: (Search for "Johnson")
- JQ posted a Fortran programming job advertisement for me (JJF)

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