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Dr. Sigurd Harand worked for 4 years for DERI coordinating the large DIP Integrated Project that achieved land marking results in the area of Semantic Web Services.
Obituary - by Dr. Peter Smolle
Sigurd is gone from us – forever !
But he shall be and will be in our heart due to his unforgotten mindset he created in all of us. He was an unique and highly intelligent Charakter who cannot be forgotten that easily
Just a few spots from his live which impressed me during all the years when we worked together, sometimes close as colleagues at IBM later on as a Customer of mine:
Sigurd was a strange Charakter not easy to become friends, but if so he was open trustful and of immense help with his experience in life and business
As a Mathematician, he never left his roots , always logical and holistic thinking
As an IT GURU he he adopted the complexitiy of Data and Processes
As an Manager he was the enabling and target setting type of
And he was THE exeptionally gifted networker to connect and link with people all around the world
I special liked his kind of humor:
Sigurd (driving with me in the car during snow fall) Peter, dont you also wonder why the snow always comes from the front oft he car and never from the back ???
is this an new, undetected law of physics ???
Peter (me): Sigurd you got it, I shall ask Wolfgang Pauli!
Both after 10 seconds : laughter
One of his saying always was:
There is enough time to fill it with something, I shall fill mine with work and friends
Sigurd we miss you
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