Jeffrey Huskamp (1949–2010)
SC04 General Chair Jeffrey Huskamp (front left) looking over the build out of SC04 in Seattle accompanied by SC04 Planning Committee members Janet McCord (right) and Bruce Loftis (back left) in early November, 2004.
Image Credit: Sandra Huskamp
CDC 819-21 Disk Pack
Capacity: 4.8 billion bits / 600MB
Diameter: 14 in (35.5 cm)
Announced: 1978
Manufacturer: Control Data Corporation
Artifact loan courtesy of Sandra Huskamp
Why would anyone want to keep an old disk pack or any other piece of dated computer hardware? Is it because we are waiting for our kids to find it in the attic or garage and ask, “What the heck is this?”
Maybe. But deep down we know the things we save help us preserve the memories associated with these special objects. For Jeffrey Huskamp, saving the disk pack meant saving some of his memories of computing and of the people in his life of computing. While the disk pack could hold 600MB of information, (perhaps there is actual data on the disk, sadly we don’t know anything about its contents), the memories it preserved for Jeffrey were unlimited.
The CDC 819-21 Disk Pack on display in the 35 Years of SC exhibit is just one aspect of Jeffrey’s historical register of memories in HPC. Jeffrey saved it to remember us and now we exhibit it and other objects at SC23 to remember Jeffrey.
Computer cards and printouts at Purdue.
Among lifelong colleagues and friends.
Celebrating with his wife Sandra.
With the other love of his life.
Jeffrey C. and Sandra W. Huskamp Endowed Computer Science Scholarship
Dr. Jeff Huskamp, the former Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Maryland, and Sandra Huskamp, former Director of Operations for Bioengineering, established the Jeffrey C. and Sandra W. Huskamp Endowed Computer Science Scholarship in May 2010 to support undergraduates majoring in computer science.
Jeffrey C. and Sandra W. Huskamp Endowed Bioengineering Scholarship
The world is powered by engineers, and the Clark School is leading innovations across a broad range of areas, including aerospace, bioengineering, robotics, nanotechnology, fire protection, disaster resilience, and energy and sustainability. Its students, faculty and alumni are the forces behind life-changing inventions such as the Universal Product Code, satellite radio, Pulse-Doppler radar and the implantable insulin pump. Its rigorous academic program is complemented by a focus on entrepreneurship, hands-on experiences and participation in national and international competitions. Your support can help advance groundbreaking energy and sustainability technologies, provide solar power to schools in Sierra Leone and spur new innovations in pediatric biomedical devices.
