We are sad to announce that on September 14, 2023, Professor David Alan Golumbia of Richmond, Virginia passed away. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Professor David Alan Golumbia to pay them a last tribute.

He was loved and cherished by many people including : his mother Dr. Linda Golumbia; his sister Nancy Golumbia (Susan Eachus); his nephew Jacob Golumbia; and his aunts and uncles, Dr. Richard Axelrod, Sherri Tobias (late Charles), Dr. Eugene Axelrod (Charlene) and Dr. Daone Kaufman. He was also cherished by many loving cousins, colleagues and friends.

Funeral arrangement under the care of
Kaufman Funeral Home

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September 19, 2023

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“David was on the committee that hired me. We struck up a friendship shortly after I got to VCU, walking our dogs and talking about ideas whenever we could get a chance. I will always think of him as the most brilliant and compassionate mentor and friend. I miss him so so much already.”

September 18, 2023

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November 7, 2023

Fred Turner wrote a sympathy message

“I'm so sorry David is gone. He was a fabulous scholar and a wonderful person -- a model for the rest of us. Please accept my deepest sympathies. Fred Turner”

September 25, 2023

Raj Nambiar wrote a sympathy message

“In loving memory of Professor David Alan Golumbia, You will be sorely missed.”

September 18, 2023

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“In loving memory of Professor David Alan Golumbia, With deepest sympathies.”

September 18, 2023

K Nash wrote a sympathy message

“I am grateful and glad to have been David's friend, colleague, and neighbor since the early 2000s. We worked and lived near each other while I earned my doctorate, then my colleagues and I at VCU persuaded him to join us on faculty here. Smart, funny, earnest, fierce, and a tireless advocate for justice, David is a light never to be extinguished in my life. Thank God for him. KSN”

September 16, 2023

Tara McPherson wrote a sympathy message

“David was a remarkable scholar and colleague - rigorous, brilliant, prescient, and deeply ethical. I taught his work regularly, sharpened my own writing in dialogue with him, brought him to speak to my students, and deeply valued his insights. The ways we think about computation will be diminished without his voice. Sending deepest sympathies to his family.”

September 15, 2023

R M wrote a sympathy message

“I am so sorry for your loss. I work on Capitol Hill and David's writing, advocacy, and friendship have been an enormously important influence on work to advance the public interest and protect consumers from corporate interests. He was so ahead of his peers - writing presciently on tech decades before those ideas became popular. (and consensus). His influence will remain in me for the rest of my life (and I know many others); I am so grateful for his selfless work, his ethics and his friendship.”