Claude A.R. Kagan HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP - 

Claude Ancelme Roichel Kagan of Hopewell Township,
 born Oct. 7, 1924, passed away April 26, 2012. Mr. Kagan grew up in
 Orval, France, and was educated in France, England and the U.S. He earned
 his B.S. in mechanical engineering (1948) and electrical engineering
 (1950), and a M.S. in electrical engineering (1950) from Cornell 
University. He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World
 War II, and in the Signal Corps during the Korean War. Claude worked
 for AT&T/Western Electric from 1953 to 1988, mostly at the 
Engineering Research Center outside of Princeton, and later,
 as a consultant for SAM76 Inc. 

His work included communications, manufacturing systems, and visionary
 work on computers in the home and personal computing. In addition to 
thinking about the future, Claude collected historical technology, and
 filled his barn with artifacts, including a Burroughs 205 mainframe 
vacuum tube computer. Fortunately, the DEC PDP-8 and other highlights
 of his collection were donated to the InfoAge Museum before the barn 
burned in 2009. Claude was an amateur radio operator (KE2XY, W2UUI),
 and a professional engineer. He was active in IEEE and related 
organizations, and received the IEEE Computer Society Medal for 
extraordinary contributions in 1984. 

Claude was an active mentor who guided many young people into computing
 and engineering through the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Computer Club for youth,
 the Cornell Alumni Network, and informally. Burial will be private,
 and a memorial event is being organized. In lieu of flowers, a 
scholarship fund is being created in his honor. See 
www.resistors.org for details.

Published in The Times, Trenton, on July 8, 2012