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Harry L. Pardue made significant contributions to the intersection of technology and clinical laboratory science, focusing on the application of emerging computational and automation tools to analytical chemistry. His research explored how artificial intelligence — encompassing both expert systems and neural networks — could be meaningfully integrated into clinical laboratory systems, a forward-thinking area of inquiry during the early-to-mid 1990s when such technologies were still nascent. His repeated publications on AI in analytical systems, collectively garnering over 35 citations, reflect both the depth of his engagement with the topic and the sustained interest his work generated among laboratory scientists and clinicians. Pardue also investigated the expanding role of robotics in clinical laboratories, examining how automated systems could reduce repetitive tasks, minimize human exposure to hazardous environments, and improve overall laboratory efficiency. His 1991 and 1992 papers on laboratory robotics, published with the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry, helped bring these ideas to an international audience. For students and researchers in clinical chemistry and laboratory automation, Pardue's work represents an important early effort to envision and articulate the technologically transformed laboratory of the future.