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Remembrance of Nat Durlach

Nat was a very real human being, and I treasure memories of my association with him. Though he was doing sensory research in the Research Lab for Electronics at MIT and we were doing telerobotics work in my lab in Mechanical Engineering, we somehow happily came together. We jointly planned a meeting to bring together NASA space research folks and various VR programmers, mostly from gaming firms, at a beach hotel in Santa Barbara. It was clear that there was a productive connection between human control of real (remote) systems and human interaction with virtual environments. An MIT Press editor attended the meeting, and soon there was a journal. Nat’s energy, creativity, humor, and kindness will be sorely missed.