Ken Pearson, 1943-2015

On May 12th 2015, illness finally claimed the life of Ken Pearson, creator of GEMPACK, and our colleague and friend for more than 30 years. The funeral was held on Monday, 18th May, at Ballara Receptions, Eltham, Melbourne.

• Tribute written by Peter Dixon and Maureen Rimmer
• Tribute for Australian Mathematical Society
• Tribute from GTAP. See also.
• Obituary in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers
• The Age death notice
• Curriculum Vitae
• Publications
• GTAP contributions
• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

With the GEMPACK team, 2012.

Twin Pearsons spruik the advantage of parallel processing using GEMPACK.

With Philips Adams in 1983, shortly after joining Impact Centre.

Pioneers of CGE software: from right to left, Alex Meeraus (GAMS), Ken Pearson (GEMPACK),
Tom Rutherford (MPSGE) and Mark Horridge (GEMPACK), in Washington DC, May 2011.

With Peter Dixon, Dec 14.