I was a close friend of Roy's back at PS 162 in Bayside. He and Louis Wang were my 'smart friends.' Although there was no way I could keep up with him intellectually (in fact, I was one of those poor contestants that Roy easily beat in…
I did not see Roy on a daily or even a monthly basis. Like everyone else, we were preoccupied with our own daily chores and routines. So, over the past 2 months it's been easier for me to busy myself with work and to pretend that Roy's…
Roy was a friend from Francis Lewis High School in the late 60's. In college he began dating my sister, Beth Bernick, and upon graduation they married; thus Roy became my brother-in-law.
I was introduced to Roy when I was a graduate student at a Yale, when he and his colleagues spoke at the May, 1994, "Hypertext @ Yale" conference (where a specially networked computer room was set up to allow participants to operate…