Not much info on this Wikipedia page.

He was a PhD candidate in Molecular Biology at Berkeley and that's how he discovered UNIX.

Never finished his PhD.

Thank you for your insightful commentary on someone who has passed away at too young an age.

This is a great talk of his from 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws

That he passed on his way back from a BSD conference was bitter-sweet.

Karels' RFC:

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc936.txt

also https://www.facebook.com/groups/BSDCan/permalink/10159552565...

> I am sad to report that Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67. https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karel...

This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere. If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote. RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better. What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws