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Article: Students, professors remember science-fiction 'visionary'
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- March 25, 2008
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Tyler Dukes
University Wire
03-25-2008
(Technician) (UWIRE) RALEIGH, N.C. -- Assistant Electrical Engineering Professor Kevin Gard has always been more of a tinkerer than a reader.
As a student in grade school during the 1970's, Gard said he amused himself with crystal radio sets and walkie-talkies. But there was one genre of literature that frequently piqued his interest: science fiction.
And one author in particular, Arthur C. Clarke, never stopped fascinating him.
"It just stuck with me because he tied in science facts with science fiction -- where we are and where we're going," Gard said.
Clarke, the author of such works as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama, passed away ...
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