S. Barry Cooper 1943 - 2015

摘要

Barry Cooper, founding member and former president of the Association Computabil-ity in Europe, died on October 26, 2015, shortly after his 72nd birthday. Born on October 9, 1943, Barry was a leading figure in the UK logic scene all of his academic life, a major figure in computability theory, and in particular degree theory. Most relevant in the context of CiE 2016 is of course that Barry was the driving force of Computability in Europe and without him, our association would not exist. This text is focused on Barry in relation to the Association Computability in Europe, it is based on a short obituary by Benedikt Lowe and Dag Normann, and borrows from it with due permission of the authors.