Obituaries

Funeral Set for Chatschik Bisdikian

A memorial visitation and service for the beloved Chappaqua scientist and photographer will be held Wednesday in Pleasantville.

Editor's Note: Below is an obituary from Beecher Funeral Home)

Chappaqua resident Chatschik Bisdikian passed away unexpectedly on April 24, 2013 at the age of 52.

He was a loving father and husband, a scientist, photographer and drummer. For the past 24 years Chatschik was a leading researcher in wireless networking at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He made several seminal contributions including standardization of Bluetooth technology and defining Quality of Information in sensor networks. He was a Fellow of the IEEE and on the editorial board of several prestigious technical journals. He held 25 patents, published more than 210 technical papers, co-authored the book 'Bluetooth Revealed' and won numerous best-paper awards in a long and distinguished career.

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A native of Thessaloniki, Greece, he received a degree in Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic School in Thessaloniki before moving to the United States and earning his Masters and Ph.D in Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Connecticut, garnering among the highest academic accolades throughout his university career.

He had a lifelong passion for drumming, passing his musical interests on to his two sons, both now musicians, and an equal passion and talent for photography. He was particularly fond of capturing beautiful Chappaqua scenes and light, as well as his sons’ frequent musical performances, for which he always made time to attend and participate.

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He is survived by his wife of 22 years, Teresa Shen, and their sons, Eugene and Theo. Chatschik was a man of talent, beauty and passion who will be missed by all who knew him.

A Memorial Visitation and Service will be held on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 from

10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at The Beecher Flooks Funeral Home, 418 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570 – 914.769.0001.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that a donation be made in the name of Chatschik Bisdikian for the special needs programs to the Lagond Music School of Elmsford, NY, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to contemporary music education and live music performance. 


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