October 14, 2011

2011Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1948)^[†]

Reginald B. Alcock, was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Winnipeg South in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2006 and was a cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister Paul Martin. Alcock was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

2011Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (born 1949)^[†]

Ashawna Hailey was an American computer scientist and philanthropist. She was among the creators of the HSPICE program, which many electronic design companies worldwide use to simulate the electronic circuits. Her company, Meta-Software, which was behind the commercialization of SPICE, produced compound annual growth rate in excess of 25–30 percent every year for 18 years, and had eventually become part of Synopsys, which calls HSPICE "the 'gold standard' for accurate circuit simulation".