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92 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z L A U E R LAUER HUGH C. THEN AND NOW 4 B.S., Mathematics 4 M.S., Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon 4 Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon FAMI LY 4 Wife, Ruth Lauer 4 Sons, Will and Arthur, deceased 4 Daughters, Jennifer and Alison 4 One grandchild ADDRESS 4 100 Keyes Road Concord, MA 01742 CONTACT 508 272-6616 hclauer@acm.org A R O U N D C O N C O R D , I am also known as Mr. Ruth Lauer. My wife Ruth (of 46.5 years) has been a vol- unteer in many things that make Concord a great place to live.While she has served as an elected official on the Board of Selectmen and the school board, I have served on the Public Works Commission, Finance Committee, and Municipal Light Board,and I was the town’s represen- tative to the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority). All of these have been volunteer positions for both of us. I AM IN MY THIRD CAREER A f t e r g r a du a t e s choo l (Carn egieMellon:M.S.inMathematics , ’67 and Ph.D. in Computer Science, ’73), we moved to Newcastle-upon- Tyne in the United Kingdom, where I joined the faculty of Newcastle University in the computing labora- tory. That was my first career. After five wonderful years (and two chil- dren born in the U.K. with dual citi- zenship), we returned to the U.S. I started my second career in high tech industry. I did a whole bunch of interesting things in com- puting and made somewhat of a name for myself.The thing that I am proudest of is the development of a product called VolumePro, which is a semiconductor chip and software to display the insides of the human body (and other things) in real time, 3D, and living color.Although this is a routine part of medical technol- ogy now, we did it first.After knock- ing about for a while, I found myself involuntarily retired and embarked on ... My third career—this time as a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in the department of computer science. I mostly just teach nowadays,but the students are fantastic.While no one was looking, WPI emerged in the 21st century as a“hot college,”so we get some really great undergraduate students who do really great things.Although I am the oldest faculty member of my de- partment (and one of the oldest in the university), I cannot imagine re- tiring.When my students asked me last year on my birthday how old I was, I replied that I was half way be- tween 2*pi/3 gigaseconds and 3*pi/4 gigaseconds. (Two of them figured it out in their heads within a minute.) Along the way,we had two more children, for a total of two boys and two girls. Sadly, our younger son, Arthur, died of liver cancer ten years ago at the age of 24. Happily, we now have a grandchild (named Alexandra Catherine Lauer), daugh- ter of our older son, Will, and his wife, Anne Thompson. Our older daughter, Jennifer, is an astrophys- icist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics where she is on the mission control team of the Chandra X-ray satellite, and our younger daughter, Alison, is head teacher at a local special education school for emotionally disturbed high school students. OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS I served as scoutmaster for the local boy scout troop in Concord for a number of years. During that time, I graduated 14 Eagle Scouts (I don’t know if that is a local record, but it was a good run of boys). I have also built and slept in an igloo.And I can tell you that it is a good deal warmer and quieter than a tent when it is 15 below outside. I have graduated two Ph.D. stu- dents in Computer Science,one from Newcastle University and one from Stanford University. Both are very well-known and at the top of their field.They have graduated Ph.D. stu- dents of their own, and those people have graduate more Ph.D. students. According to an online genealogy of Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences, I now have 108 Ph.D.“descendants.” A couple of years ago, my wife and I were named as “Honored Citizens” of our town. That meant that our names are carved on a