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Jack Hollingum was a prolific technology journalist and chronicler of applied robotics whose work captured the field during one of its most formative decades. Writing primarily through the late 1990s, Hollingum distinguished himself as a keen observer of emerging robotic technologies across industrial, military, and hazardous environments. His most-cited work, "Robots in Agriculture" (1999, 36 citations), reflects his talent for synthesizing conference proceedings and industry meetings into accessible, informative reports that became valuable reference points for researchers and practitioners alike. Hollingum's coverage spanned an impressive breadth of robotics applications — from autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles and military explosive ordnance disposal robots to pipe-inspection systems and climbing machines. His reporting on micro aerial vehicles and military unmanned systems, documented in works like "Military Look to Flying Insect Robots" (1998, 14 citations) and "Unmanned Vehicles Go to War" (1998), proved remarkably prescient given the subsequent explosion of drone technology. His dispatches from SILVER Robotics Special Interest Group meetings and international conferences served as invaluable records of a rapidly evolving field, making him an important, if sometimes overlooked, bridge between cutting-edge robotics research and the broader engineering community.