Brendan Kehoe
Brendan Patrick Kehoe (3 December 1970 – 19 July 2011) was an Irish
Career
Kehoe wrote two books and a number of technology articles in the specialist press (e.g.,
Kehoe was a dedicated and detailed programmer, who, as a student, volunteered changes to one of the most complex pieces of free software in the world at the time, the GNU C++ Compiler and Library. His unusual skill at wrangling this code led to a full-time job as a key employee of Cygnus Support in Silicon Valley in 1992, improving, supporting and documenting this code base. By 1995 he was managing the entire GNU C++ group at Cygnus.
Later in life, Kehoe volunteered doing IT support for his local school, the Dalkey School Project. This led to positions as a member of its Board of Management, and from there to being Chairperson of the school.[5] In 2010, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Educate Together.[6] Kehoe was described by
Personal life
On 31 December 1993, Kehoe and a friend, Sven Heinicke, were involved in a serious car accident that left Kehoe with brain injuries including aphasia. He subsequently made an almost-full recovery, as there were still some brain issues lingering. He married on 5 October 1996 and lived in Dublin with his wife and two children.
At the beginning of March 2011, Kehoe was diagnosed with
References
- ^ a b c Hardy, Dan (28 June 1992). "Revealed: A Network's Secrets Brendan Kehoe's Internet Discoveries Are About To Be Published". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- Widener College. Archived from the originalon 2 September 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ "20th Anniversary of the PC Survey". PC Magazine. August 2001.
- ^ Sergey Brin – My favorite books
- ^ "Speech by Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa at Brendan Kehoe's funeral". Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ Educate Together: Contact list, including list of directors Archived 8 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ zen.org Communal Weblog » Details
- ^ Hobbes' Internet Timeline 10.2
- ^ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.admin.policy/A-JUIeKlPUw/RyMspUG7dkwJ Google Groups archive
- ^ "Brendan's blog about his stay in hospital and his treatment".
- ^ Hemmerdinger, J. (15 August 2011). "Feature Obituary: Brendan Kehoe, 40, wrote early Internet user's guide". Press Herald. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ "zen.org Communal Weblog » Bigger Than His Body". July 2011.
- ^ "The death has occurred of Brendan KEHOE of Dun Laoghaire, Dublin". Retrieved 20 July 2011.
Bibliography
- Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide, Brendan Kehoe, 1992, ISBN 0-13-452914-6.
- Children and the Internet: A Zen Guide for Parents and Educators, Brendan Kehoe and Victoria Mixon, 1996, ISBN 0-13-244674-X.
External links
- Brendan Kehoe's domain
- First (and free) edition of Zen and the art of the Internet
- Works by Brendan Kehoe at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Brendan Kehoe at Internet Archive
- Computer Underground Digest article about Brendan's accident
- Interview, 8 March 2011, with Brendan about his accident on American Public Media's "The Story"
- Brendan Kehoe: an appreciation by Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa in the Sunday Business Post, 24 July 2011
- Interview with Brendan including a demo of browsing the Internet on The Computer Chronicles, 1993. Also, archived version.