https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/peter-eckersley-may-his-memory-be-a-blessing/183854

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Peter Eckersley, may his memory be a blessing

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schoen September 3, 2022, 6:06am #1

I'm devastated to report that Peter Eckersley (@pde), one of the
original founders of Let's Encrypt, died earlier this evening at CPMC
Davies Hospital in San Francisco.

Peter was the leader of EFF's contributions to Let's Encrypt and ACME
over the course of several years during which these technologies
turned from a wild idea into an important part of Internet
infrastructure. He also took a lot of initiative in coalescing the
EFF, Mozilla, and University of Michigan teams into a single team and
a single project. He later served on the initial board of directors
of the Internet Security Research Group.

You can find a very abbreviated version of this history in the Let's
Encrypt paper, to which Peter and I both contributed.

jhalderm.com  

letsencrypt-ccs19.pdf

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Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Peter was an avid road cyclist
and espresso connoisseur, and was renowned for his flamboyant fashion
sense, as well as his appreciation of beautiful architecture and his
talents at hosting parties and bringing people together. He held a
PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Peter's intellectual interests included economics and moral
philosophy, and he actively researched in these areas, including a
demonstration that human values probably cannot be systematized in a
way that can give a clear and consistent answer about what is best in
every situation. As one of the inaugural members of the Giving What
We Can pledge, Peter promised to donate 10% of his income to charity.

Toward the end of his life, Peter focused his career on ethics and
safety of artificial intelligence, and he founded the AI Objectives
Institute to examine the concrete parallels he saw between surprising
and undesirable outcomes that can emerge within economies and those
that can emerge in machine learning systems.

You can find some of his research and ideas at

pde.is

Peter Eckersley's homepage

AI ethics & techn policy

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JamesLE pinned globally September 3, 2022, 6:59am #2
lordmalcolm September 3, 2022, 3:36pm #3

RIP bro, a live well lived we celebrate.

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jvanasco September 3, 2022, 5:50pm #4

I'm sorry for your loss.

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