JOHN CASEY

I have wonderful memories from Prof. John Casey being gentle and making me laugh. I started CCS graduate studies at Northeastern in August of 1997, I took the first graduate class with him as an international student. I really enjoyed learning from him. He was genuine and nice, very important for me as a foreign student.

John was my favorite professor at Northeastern, he was a genuinely nice person, smart, funny and always a pleasure to be around. I was in the first graduating class of the College of Computer Science thanks to John. He gave me my first paying job in his computer science lab at Northeastern and he helped countless other students become software professionals when it really was a brand new field of study. If you ever had him as a professor you'll remember him walking into the room looking...

My uncle was good man took me to many restaurants and museums as well as ski trips to vermont and cape cod as a child , I remember asking him questions about almost any subject and he knew the answer the obituary didn´t mention he won the national spelling bee and math bee in the early 60´s and I believe skipped two or three grades in grammar school rip

a little boy with freckles and a big brain...Ahead of his time ...Always way ahead of us all in Brooklyn...Johnny soaked in everything brilliant about his surroundings,and like Peter Pan went off to Neverland to seek many adventures...Good Luck there..Love ,your sister Anne and family...

I remember with pride and joy our bike ride from Boston College to NYC after Graduation in 1963. RIP, old buddy.

I just learned of John’s passing from its mention in the Boston College Magazine, Summer 2021.
We lived in the same house at BC for four years, and both being in the Honors Program were often in the same classes. What struck me first about John was his remarkable ability, even at age 18, to date, upon hearing it once, a Mozart piece to within a year of its composition. Unusual musical sensitivity is not uncommon with mathematicians; in my experience, his was astonishing.
When I...

John was a great guy and just fun to be around. He pointed my wife and me, about to travel to Spain, to this great stand-up restaurant in Madrid, La Trucha, with seafood canapes and grilled vegetables. John seemed to know about everything. He is missed

I first met John when we were both at the University of Michigan, some time between 1964-66. He was wicked smart, interested in everything, and loved having a good time--especially at Halloween, when he often had a full-on costume party. I was surprised when, at Brown University, I ran into him on the street and discovered that like myself, he was pursuing a PhD. I would occasionally run into him, especially when we both participated in the halcyon days of the Vietnam War protests at Brown...

I taught with John from the time I arrived in 1985 until his retirement in 2013. John was a good teacher and a gentle man. Aside from his contributions to the curriculum, John served in the College as one who would remind us of the importance of human values. He was always sensitive to the personal and emotional dynamics in our discussions, and would often be a calming influence when the discussion got heated. He would seldom give advice, but he would always listen carefully to what each...