Syed Salahuddin Hyder (1930-2006)
HYDER, Syed Salahuddin died in his sleep in the night of April 15, 2006 at
the age of 76. Of a family of six children, he is survived only by his
sister, Apa Humann of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He will be missed by his
children, Alexander, David and Ingrid, and their mother Dinah. Born in
Nator, India, our father emigrated first to Pakistan and then to Canada,
where he took his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.
After a series of positions in Chalk River, San Diego, and Ann Arbour, he
continued his research career as an Assistant Professor at McGill, moving
on from there to become Professor of Computer Science at the University of
Montreal. In later years, he was a visiting Professor in Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan. His work, which was the centre of his life, focused on applied
mathematics and the theory of computation. He was actively engaged in
research until the day he died. He was buried at the Islamic Cemetery of
Quebec.