Tom West passed away on May 19. West, a shy computer engineer who became an unlikely symbol of high tech to multitudes of general-interest readers as leader of the engineering team protrayed in Tracy Kidder's Pultizer Prize winning book "The Soul of a Machine."
His daughter told The New York Times that her father was driven "to understand everything." "He knew a million things - - it didn't matter: worms, plumbing, literature. He could give you a discourse. It seemed he could never rest until he had a sense of control over things around him."
I have a previous post on West - - Tom West + Paul Farmer from September 20, 2009.
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