[Vision2020] UI Professor Killed in Tractor Accident

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (June 14, 2009) Spokesman Review.

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UI professor killed in tractor accident

The chairman of the University of Idaho Department of Computer Science was
killed at his home in Deary, Idaho, in a tractor accident.

Mark Manwaring, 61, was killed when he was pinned beneath a tractor he had
been operating.

Manwaring, whose wife reported the fatal accident to the Latah County
Sheriff’s Office on Thursday evening, was doing landscaping with the older
tractor when it flipped over, the Lewiston Tribune reported.

As a student at Utah State University, he contributed to the design of a
communication system used on an early NASA space shuttle flight.

He became chairman of UI’s computer science program in 2006.

He previously had positions at Washington State University and Brigham
Young University.

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Professor Mark Manwaring

http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/Faculty/Manwaring.html

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My thoughts and sympathies to Dr. Manwaring's family, friends, and UI
Computer Science Department.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho