Редактирование: Leonard Zubkoff

[[File:Leonard Zubkoff.jpg|thumb|right|Leonard Zubkoff]]
'''Leonard Nathan Zubkoff'''<ref name="Cryonics Q3 2002">[https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2002-03.pdf Leonard N. Zubkoff]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2002 #3 (page 15 of the file)</ref> (December 19, 1957 – [[legal death]] August 29, 2002)<ref name="Cryonics Q3 2002" /> was an American computer scientist and [[Cryonics|cryonicist]]. He joined the [[Alcor Life Extension Foundation]] in 1988. He was an active member of Alcor's suspension team for many years and also provided advice and assistance with Alcor's computer systems. He became an Alcor Advisor to the Board of Directors in June 2002.<ref name="Cryonics Q3 2002" />

== Life and education ==
He was born in Seattle, Washington and earned a master's degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University after graduating summa cum laude in mathematics and physics at the University of Rochester. He moved to the Bay Area in 1985 to become the principal scientist for a Menlo Park company developing artificial intelligence software.<ref name="Lancer Alumni">[https://www.lee-high-alumni.org/Leonard%20Zubkoff.htm In Memoriam]. lee-high-alumni.org</ref>

In 1994, he joined Oracle Corp., the database software giant located in Redwood Shores, as principal member of its technical staff. He worked at Oracle by day and spent nights at home refining an alternative "open source" computer operating system known as Linux, to make it run better and faster on all kinds of computers. He continued that work when he joined VA Linux Systems, Inc., a Fremont company later known as VA Software Corp., as chief technical officer in 1998. He retired in 2001 and moved to Crystal Bay, Nevada.<ref name="Lancer Alumni" />

== Accident and cryopreservation ==
On August 29, 2002, he was flying a helicopter over a lake with an experienced flying instructor, in the Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness near Ketchikan, Alaska. For reasons unknown, but possibly relating to air turbulence, the copter took a flip-dive into the cold water, landing upside down; the two aboard were casualties mainly by drowning.<ref name="Patient profile">[https://cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2006-01.pdf Patient Profile: Leonard Zubkoff]. [[R. Michael Perry]]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2006 #1 (page 19 of the file)</ref>

His [[cryopreservation]] was [[Neuropreservation|brain-only]], starting with a mandatory [[autopsy]] in Anchorage before his remains were reluctantly released by the medical examiner and transported to Alcor.<ref name="Patient profile" /> His Alcor identifier is '''A-1194'''.

The Leonard N. Zubkoff Memorial Award was named after him.<ref>[https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2002-04.pdf Klockgether Named Recipient of First Annual Zubkoff Memorial Award]. Bill Haworth. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2002 #4 (page 11 of the file)</ref>

== Sources ==
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== External links ==
* [https://cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2006-01.pdf Patient Profile: Leonard Zubkoff]. [[R. Michael Perry]]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2006 #1 (page 19 of the file)

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