This past week marked the passage of Leonard Nimoy. Here at ArrayFire, we are deeply saddened and touched by his departure. While Mr. Nimoy was anything but a scientist, mathematician, or programmer, he portrayed a character that embodied the best of all of those professions. Whereas Mr. Nimoy has had a send off on major news outlets regarding his amazing career throughout his entire life, we would rather like to express how he specifically inspired us to ultimately pursue our careers and why we toil under the ArrayFire banner.

As everyone (hopefully) knows, Leonard Nimoy portrayed the character of Spock on Star Trek. Logical, brilliant, and supposedly emotionless, Spock served as friend and counter-balance to Kirk - the brash, head-strong, yet charming captain of the starship Enterprise. Moreover, Spock was a supreme scientist, mathematician, and programmer; professions that we all here at ArrayFire hold in the deepest regard.

Throughout the series, episodes examined the balance between Kirk and Spock and in so doing, played out the competitive use of charisma and daring against that of logic and science. Interestingly, whereas each episode picked a different balance of these tools, both where always used. Just as the resulting symbiosis in strategy came together for success, an obvious friendship was forged between Kirk and Spock. Each represented a different side of the same victorious coin and although pulling in opposite directions, the pair kept the Enterprise afloat.





Not only did their characters hold a special friendship, each represented  

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 * nimoy played spock

 * inspired us to pursue our careers - - helping to push our bleeding edge technology as hard as it can go to serve science and mathematics