Rockstar Consortium US LP et al v. Google Inc

Filing 92

MOTION for Leave to File A Supplemental Brief In Response To Googles Motion To Transfer In Light Of Newly-Acquired Evidence by NetStar Technologies LLC, Rockstar Consortium US LP. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order Granting Motion for Leave to File a Supplemental Brief In Response to Google's Motion to Transfer in Light of Newly-Acquired Evidence, # 2 Supplement Plaintiffs' Supplemental Brief In Response to Google's Motion to Transfer, # 3 Affidavit of Amanda Bonn In Support of Plaintiffs' Supplemental Brief In Response to Google's Motion to Transfer, # 4 Exhibit 1, # 5 Exhibit 2, # 6 Exhibit 3, # 7 Exhibit 4, # 8 Exhibit 5, # 9 Exhibit 6, # 10 Exhibit 7, # 11 Exhibit 8, # 12 Exhibit 9, # 13 Exhibit 10, # 14 Exhibit 11, # 15 Exhibit 12, # 16 Exhibit 13, # 17 Exhibit 14, # 18 Exhibit 15, # 19 Exhibit 16, # 20 Exhibit 17, # 21 Exhibit 18, # 22 Exhibit 19, # 23 Exhibit 20, # 24 Exhibit 21, # 25 Exhibit 22, # 26 Exhibit 23, # 27 Exhibit 24, # 28 Exhibit 25, # 29 Exhibit 26, # 30 Exhibit 27, # 31 Exhibit 28, # 32 Exhibit 29, # 33 Exhibit 30)(Bonn, Amanda)

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Obituary: Roy Korfhage: Pitt professor who gave his students much

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Obituary: Roy Korfhage: Pitt professor
who gave his students much
Sunday, November 22, 1998
By Eleanor Chute, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
When University of Pittsburgh professor Robert Roy Korfhage planted
his garden at his Squirrel Hill home, he didn't plant a bed of flowers that
were all alike but instead picked an eclectic mix of plants that he could
care for individually.
That's how the professor of information sciences cared for his students,
too, said his daughter Margaret FitzGerald of Plymouth, Mich.
"He was deeply interested in his students on a very individual basis.
Instead of seeing them as 'my class,' he saw them as each student
individually. He would take phone calls from his students anytime day
or night."
One time when he was teaching at Southern Methodist University, he
was surprised to discover that many of his students were football
players. A counselor erroneously had told them his was a cake course.
Dr. Korfhage didn't water down the course for them, but he addressed
their interests by arranging for them to talk with the Dallas Cowboys
about how they used computers.
Dr. Korfhage, who retired from Pitt in the summer and became professor
emeritus, died of cancer on Friday at his home at the age of 67.
Throughout his career, Dr. Korfhage was involved in computers.
He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering mathematics in 1952 from
the University of Michigan, having taken the first two computing
courses the university offered.
After working as a computer programmer for the United Aircraft Corp.
for two years, he returned to the University of Michigan. He met his
wife, Ann, whom he married in 1955, at the university. He earned a
doctorate in math in 1962.
He taught at North Carolina State College, now North Carolina State

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University, Purdue University and SMU before joining the Pitt faculty in
1986. At SMU, students selected him as one of the best teachers.
He wrote 10 books and was most proud of "Information Storage and
Retrieval," which won the 1997 prize for the best professional scholarly
book in computer science by the Association of American Publishers
and the 1998 prize for the best book in information science by the
American Society of Information Science.
The question of how to retrieve the most pertinent information from vast
amounts of information intrigued Dr. Korfhage.
The last project on which he was working was called VIBE, for Visual
Information Browsing Environment. This project is addressing the
problem of how someone using the Internet or another large data source
can turn up hundreds of listings but can have difficulty sorting out which
ones were most useful.
VIBE, which other researchers will continue, is developing a visual
system so that, for example, a series of dots could show how closely the
listings matched the request.
Dr. Korfhage long saw how important being able to receive information
would become.
"I remember in the '70s during the oil crisis, he said to me, 'This is oil
now, but I have to tell you that information is what is going to be the real
commodity,"' FitzGerald said.
A member of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Korfhage
was past chairman of its Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval
and served two terms on the ACM council. In the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineering, he helped to start the Symposium on
Visual Languages.
At Pitt, Dr. Korfhage developed student exchange programs with Molde
College and Hedmark College in Norway and was an adjunct professor
at Molde College.
At holidays, it was common for foreign students too far from their
homes to join the Korfhage family for dinner.
Toni Carbo, dean of information sciences, said, "He was an
extraordinary teacher and mentor to students and junior faculty. Many of
his graduates are working in very prestigious universities around the
world. I think that is probably his greatest legacy.
"Bob took an interest in their whole lives, not just their intellectual lives.
He had such a good sense of humor. Sometimes scholars seem remote,
but he wasn't that way at all."

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She considers Dr. Korfhage one of the world's leading scholars in
information retrieval.
Besides his math and computer skills, he had a wide array of interests,
including gardening, music, painting, photography, stamp collecting,
antique collecting, cooking and traveling. The family had hundreds of
plants around the house, many of them cactuses. He enjoyed playing
Dave Brubeck jazz pieces on the piano.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Dr. Korfhage is survived by another
daughter, Lisa Pannel of Minneapolis; two sons, Willard of Newton,
Mass.; and David of Princeton, N.J.; a sister, Marilyn Toppel of
Scottsdale, Ariz.; and one grandson.
There will be a memorial service at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the First United
Methodist Church of Pittsburgh.
Burial will be private.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Robert R. Korfhage Award,
University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, 505
Information Sciences Building, 135 N. Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh
15260.
Arrangements were handled by H. Samson Funeral Home.

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