My father, the house

I thought this was rather funny and cute. My father used to be one of the first IT people in Estonia so, it seems, they have built a new information technology and research *city*, which they also call the Estonian Silicon Valley, and they are naming buildings after people There are 4 big houses and one of them is called after my dad! My dad is a house !!! It's called the Agur building :))))

That led me to thinking ... wouldn't it be nice it every house would be named after somebody? And every man and woman would have a building with a small plaque with the person's name and short life story on it. There are lots of buildings, structures, huts to go around, everyone could have his or her own! I rather fancy a nice little powerhouse around the corner :)))



I mean, every person is worth a song, every life is important ...



This is what they say on the webpage (http://www.ulemistecity.ee)



Estonian Innovators



Ülemiste City respects the memory of innovative people from Estonia. Therefore, to perpetuate and show our respect to the people who have accomplished great goals, all the houses built in the Ülemiste City innovation district are named after world-famous innovators coming from or involved with Estonia.



Ustus Agur (1929-1997) - Estonian information society pathfinder



Ustus Agur, the "Grand Old Man" of Estonian computers and information, managed over the course of 50 years to work as a computer engineering teacher, researcher, terminology developer, Estonian information system creator and publish more than five hundred publications. A great many of his endeavours were the first of their kind and ground breaking.



Ustus Agur was already interested by electron computers in the 1950s, also being the author of the first Estonian language publication on electron computers. In 1967 Ustus Agur founded the TTÜ computer department (pretty much at the same time that computer science began in England, Germany and elsewhere in Europe). As a professor in the Information Technology Department, and its chair from 1966-1976, Ustus Agur has given many lectures on the different domains: general electro technology, electric drive theory, the bases of informatics, data processing means, and data communication and computer networks. He published dozens of articles every year in different fields - on educational institutions of higher learning, programming, literature, the relationship between art and cybernetics, the effectiveness and quality of information work. In addition to this, he developed numerous specialty text books. The popular scientific book "People and automats" was directed towards a broad group of readers.



A new stage in Agur's life was the years spent working in the Estonian Information Institute, which was the developer of Estonia's science and technology information systems. Under the instruction of Agur, the institute developed the principles and concept behind the Independent Scientific and Technology Information System (VATTIS).



Under the leadership of Ustus Agur, annual independent conferences and consultations were held, which mirrored the development problems of the dissemination of information and information systems. In 1988, under the leadership of the scientist, the concept of Estonia's informationalization concept was completed, which became a participant in high recognition.



The scientist also played an important part in the arrangement of Estonia's informatic life. His activities are related to the formation of Estonia's Informatics Supervisory Board and the Informatics fund, where Agur worked as director in his final years.



Ustus Agur's versatile and novel activities remain as a valuable spiritual inheritance for Estonia. As a researcher and populariser of science, creator of terminology and compiler of vocabulary, first computer and information newspaper publisher and translator, Ustus Agur has left an indelible mark on our national culture.



Materials used:



http://www.tlu.ee/~i-foorum/agur.htm

http://www.itcollege.ee/kolledz/uudis.php?id=516