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09-12-2018
Goodbye Ruud
| Submitter: | Andre Gunst |
| Description: | Today we say goodbye to our colleague Ruud Overeem. Ruud worked at ASTRON for more than 15 years. He worked most of his time at ASTRON on the development of the control system for the LOFAR telescope. To be more precise: the "Monitoring And Control" and "Specification And Scheduling" system, better known by insiders as the MAC/SAS system of LOFAR. Later on, he used this expertise to design and develop the APERTIF software architecture. This led for APERTIF to the choice of a Service Oriented architecture with the usage of a messagebus for the communication. Ruud was also the one who took care of the development and effort necessary to start a real-time observation at Exloo, during the LOFAR opening by our Queen Beatrix at the 12th of June in 2010. Not known by many and finally revealed to the public the famous push on the golden button by the Queen led to the important action of Ruud to press "Enter" on his computer in order to start a live observation. Ruud requested to celebrate his goodbye low-profile and non-standard. He is a person who thinks different and preferred to give treats by himself during the coffee break today. We like to thank Ruud for all his efforts and being our colleague for such a long time. We wish you all the best and good luck in your new and interesting job. |
| Copyright: | ASTRON |
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