Roger Steyaert K7RXV informed us of the sad news that Jerry Burke, co-author of NEC/MOM family of programs about which Roger has given recent presentations on antenna modeling, has died of cancer.
Jerry and A. Poggio wrote the programs at Lawrence Livermore Labs in 1981, under contract to the US Navy. NEC2 was later released to the public and is now available on most computing platforms.
NEC stands for Numerical Electromagnetics Code, and as Roger taught us, NEC2 simulates the electromagnetic response of antennas and metal structures so we can use it to model the performance of our antennas. https://www.nec2.org/.