b'IN MEMORIAMA TRIBUTE TO ARNOLD SPIELBERGAmong the many losses we experienced in 2020, the death of Arnold Spielberg represented the end of an era for so many at USC Shoah Foundation. Our Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustmans tribute to Arnold shines a light on the enormous impact his brilliance had on the trajectory of our organization. May his memory be a blessing. I have been USC Shoah Foundations Chief Technology Officer since 1994. I first met Arnold Spielberg in 1996 when I was 27 years old and he came on a tour of USC Shoah Foundation. Arnold was 79 years old.I didnt know anything about Arnolds history as an engineer, so I was surprised as I was giving him a tour that he kept talking about the various solutions and systems we had in place with deep familiarity. And after a while talking with him, I realized he was more than familiar with the technologies, he was telling me stories that ranged from years toArnold Spielberg pictured with his son Steven decades old about how he had usedor builtsomething similar.Spielberg.It turns out Arnold has had a large impact on my entire life. From the age of seven, I took computer programming lessons using a computer at Dartmouth College called the GE-225. General Electric (GE) started selling the computer in 1960. In 1963, GE donated a GE-225 to Dartmouth College, where my father was and still is a professor. Using the donated GE-225, researchers at Dartmouth invented a time-sharing system that allowed students and faculty to use computer terminals on one shared environment, all linked, like the internet is today. Arnolds GE-225 started me on the path to a career in computing.After receiving my degree in Computer Engineering, I interned for the Army Corps of Engineers, where I specialized in digital library systems. It turns out that in 1954, Arnold invented one of the first digital library systems and created a patent called the Electronic Library System. This patent was the base for the technology that would allow me to create the systems that run the Visual History Archive.In 1994, when I was 24 years old, I was asked to come run the technology for USC Shoah Foundation. This is when I would run into Arnolds third masterpiece that would guide my life and career: Steven Spielberg.In 1996, Arnold, whose every action had helped form the engineer I was, had come to help. His timing could not have been more perfect. We were tackling some of the hardest technical problems in the world and we had everyone from the CIA and NSA to the largest technology companies working with us. Not only did Arnold start working with me, he became a close friend and a cherished mentor. He brought the experience and knowledge of someone who had done my job for 60 years to our efforts.And during all of this we would eat, laugh, play and engineer. No one I have ever known could eat more than Arnold. He had an appetite for everything, including life.At 86, Arnold just could not drive anymore. However, I was lucky enough to live five minutes from his house. I would bring him to my house, or we would go out to eat and talk, until he could not do that anymore, either. But no matter how much his body failed him, his mind was sharp, and I enjoyed our talks well past his hundredth birthday.I feel so fortunate to have had Arnold, as an inventor, friend and mentor, in my professional and personal life.Well done, Arnold. I miss you. Arnold died at 103 on August 25, 2020.32 2020 ANNUAL REPORT'