Is Fernando Pereira still alive? (Was: Who was Fernando Pereira?)

I find his name on this arvix paper:
Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08295
He features as an Executive Sponsor.
Mild Shock schrieb:

When I look at the file it shows me:
 Some of the benchmarks are inspired on a benchmark suite developed at
ICOT for their SIM project, and other benchmark choices were
influenced by discussions with ICOT researchers on the relative
performance of SIM-I vs.  Prolog-20.
 -- Fernando Pereira
 But the file name has probably a typo:
 samples/peirera.pl
 Pay respect to the ancestors, and write their names correctly.
 Its obviously nonsense, because the original name was:
 These benchmarks are designed to identify
pereira.tar Fernando Pereira's benchmarks (26-DEC-86)
pereira.txt
 https://github.com/ashok-khanna/cmu-ai-repository/blob/main/lang/prolog/code/bench/0.html   These tests are a nice piece of history and
require some research to get the names right.