I was a member of the IEEE-754 (2008) committee; Bob was our MSC liaison. I didn't know him well, but I was impressed by him. Considering that he wasn't a flo

I was a member of the IEEE-754 (2008) committee; Bob was our MSC liaison. I didn't know him well, but I was impressed by him. Considering that he wasn't a floating-point expert, but his enthusiasm and nearly boundless patience with the agonizingly slow standards process was truly impressive. He gave up an enormous amount of his time to standards work that most engineers assume is someone else's problem.