It's great when there's member follow-up to my posts, and this week provided some very beneficial after-column info.

Welcome New Members We are excited to welcome the following new member to the SIPA community: GBGB Media The Passing of Dr. Eugster: A Life Well Lived Thanks to Ed Coburn for sending us the following: “Dr. Charles Eugster died on April 26, 2017, at the age of 97. Dr. Eugster was a longtime SIPA member from Switzerland where he published a newsletter on dentistry. He was a smart, delightful gentleman and very funny. I once had the misfortune of following him on a lunchtime panel at SIPA Annual where he completely upstaged me, and everyone else on the panel… He truly was a delightful and impressive man, who enriched many lives.  I’m sorry to hear he’s left us.” Dr. Eugster restarted a career in rowing at age 63, took up body building at 87 and sprinting at 95. When he died, he held many British track records for his age group. During his career as a master rower, he won an incredible 40 Gold Medals for World Master ...

The Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA) is partnering with IBM to allow their members to take e-learning courses on big data, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and cognitive computing, through IBM's Big Data University.