Editor’s Note: Laurie Robertson
It is with sadness and much regret that we report the death of our friend and colleague, Laurie Robertson, who was the editor of the Anecdotes department. Laurie was one of those rare individuals who was both a practitioner of computer science and a student attending school. She was an employee of the MITRE Corporation and was about to take her doctoral qualifying exam in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Virginia Tech. Because of this background, Laurie was especially good in working with Anecdote writers—in helping to shape a story, guide an argument, or find a gem of an idea that needed to be shared with the world. We will miss her.Laurie’s friend and editorial board member, AnneFitzpatrick, has agreed to serve as an interim editor of this department. Current and potential authors of Anecdotes should correspond with her at the depart-ment address, annals-anecdotes@computer.org.