Sam Roweis 1972 - 2010

As an undergrad, I looked up to so many graduate students in the Computation and Neural Systems department and wanted to be just like them. ...

The following post is based on some reminiscences I shared during a memorial event held at the University of Toronto on January 22, 2010, ...

Dear Roweis family, friends, and colleagues, The breadth and spread of Sam Roweis' scientific legacy are just at their beginning. There ...

The last two times I saw Sam were, I believe, very important moments in his life. Sam and Meredith came to our house in May, 2008. Sam had...

Sam went on to do many great things, in research, engineering, California, London, Toronto, New York, Google. But for me, Sam was my old sc...

To the family of Sam Roweis, you have my sincerest condolences. Please be gentle with yourselves as you heal this loss and grieve and mourn ...

I am an avid listener of Professor Roweis' lectures posted on videolectures.net . It is such a good experience listening to him and watc...

This obituary was written for the NYU webpages. The version that appeared there was modified. Sam Roweis (1972-2010) Scientist and Enginee...

Like so many others, I was deeply saddened to hear of Sam’s passing. I had known Meredith a little before she and Sam moved to San Francisco...

I only shared time with Sam on a few occasions but they generated wonderful memories. The first was during his job search---boy did I want ...

I met Sam a few times around the turn of the millennium. I particularly remember attending one of his lectures at UCL on HMMs and their gene...

I am writing this shortly after the commemoration event for Sam held at the Gatsby on Jan 25th. It was very good to get together to remember...

I've known Sam since he visited Bell Labs in the late 90's while doing his PhD. From these early interactions I had already been im...

I went to the memorial for Sam on Friday (Jan. 22nd) here at the University of Toronto. It was a very emotional and intense event, attended...

Sam was my cousin on my mother’s side. We were seven cousins: six boys and myself; Sam was the youngest by roughly 15 to 20 years. The age...

Dear Meredith, Aya, Orli, Shoukry, family, friends, and colleagues. Sam was a stupendous researcher and a remarkable scientist. I would like...

I've tried to write this several times now, but the words somehow never seem right nor do they quite live up to the memory of Sam. He w...

I have been trying to remember the first time I met Sam, and I think it must be when he and Aaron came roller skating past my front door j...

I am very saddened by Sam's death. I interacted with Sam a lot while he was a graduate student at CalTech and I was an Assistant Profess...

Damn it, Sam - I still can't get used to the idea that I'm never going to run into you again, at the top of the stairs in B43. With ...

I hardly know where to start. Sam was a wonderful colleague and a dear friend. I had the privilege to work closely with him over a period ...

I met Sam in Toronto, and later knew him in London. A few memories: Sam explaining an algorithm using sandwiched, rotating overhead slides; ...

I worked as the Financial Officer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2001 when Sam Roweis joined the depa...

I knew Sam for many years as a central figure at NIPS, and had only just begun to know him as a collaborator and friend when he moved to NYU...

I never really considered Sam a peer – more of a hero, to be honest. I suppose, in general, that that kind of undisguised admiration could g...

Sam and I were in the same high school class at the University of Toronto Schools. Words simply can not express the immense respect that I ...

There's no way to really digest this news about Sam and hard to believe he is not alive. This was a guy who was so alive to you every ti...

The day Sam joined our department at the University of Toronto back in 2001 was a very special one for me, and during this tragedy I'm o...

I've tried several times to sit down and write a few words about Sam but each time my head starts spinning and I've stopped. Some re...

Even though I only knew Sam through conference interactions, and then through his stay at MIT, I always felt he was a special friend. I lov...

I have just returned from the incredibly moving memorial for Sam Roweis that was held this afternoon [17 January] in New York. Everyone who ...

I attended University of Toronto Schools with Sam for six years, from ages twelve through eighteen. Sam was a superstar, known and liked by ...

My memories of Sam all cluster around a sound, "HA ha ha!": that shouted burst of laughter he let out when he saw the humour in so...

I came back from the memorial service for Sam at NYU moved and touched by the memories of so many of his closest friends and family. Everyth...

In 2008 there took place a six-months research programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, organised by ...

My first memory of Sam is from a workshop in Toronto. He came up to me after my talk, which I wasn't sure was successful as I saw eyes g...

Sam was just larger than life in every respect, and a hero to so many of us. In addition to his brilliant scientific achievements, what rea...

In addition to his academic brilliance, I will remember Sam for his genuine human warmth and his contagious energy. Apart the usual NIPS par...

Sam embodied some of the best traits of the research field of machine learning. He was open, inclusive, and had a wonderful energy, enthusi...

I think I am one of perhaps hundreds of people who has not spent a great deal of time with Sam, yet considered him a friend, because of his ...

I met Sam in the 1990's at NIPS. I was relatively new to the community, and a little overwhelmed by its size and scope. The gregarious...

I first knew Sam when he was a student at Caltech. He already had all the ingredients that make him loved and admired by so many people toda...

One of many joyful memories of Sam is the tradition he invented of giving presentations in the style of a cinema. He would precede "The...

Like for so many of the people posting here, Sam was an inspiration to me. Someone who knew what it meant to be a good person - in heart a...