{"id":5658,"date":"2024-11-12T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:37","slug":"in-memoriam-sylvain-pitre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/in-memoriam-sylvain-pitre\/","title":{"rendered":"SCS Memoriam to Sylvain Pitre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        SCS Memoriam to Sylvain Pitre\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>It is with deep sadness that we inform the Carleton community of the death of Sylvain Pitre, Manager, Research Computing Services, who passed away on Feb. 23, 2019, after a brief illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Pitre has been associated with the School of Computer Science since 2001 where he completed his Master\u2019s in Computer Science (M.C.S), Ph.D. in Computer Science, and was a MITACS and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellows. He also worked at the school as a tutorial assistant, research assistant and was a contract instructor for various computer science courses. His professionalism, expertise,and friendship will be deeply missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our most sincere condolences go out to Sylvain\u2019s spouse Melanie and the entire Pitre family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University (ITS): <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/its\/2019\/in-memoriam-sylvain-pitre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Memoriam: Sylvain Pitre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with deep sadness that we inform the Carleton community of the death of Sylvain Pitre, Manager, Research Computing Services, who passed away on Feb. 23, 2019, after a brief illness. Dr. Pitre has been associated with the School of Computer Science since 2001 where he completed his Master\u2019s in Computer Science (M.C.S), Ph.D. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carleton-news","category-world-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5661,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions\/5661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}