Re: The death John McCarthy

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I worked at the MIT AI Lab for a number of years and visited SAIL several times.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Steve Crocker <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was at the MIT AI Lab 1967-68 and at ARPA/IPTO 1961-74 where I funded and reviewed the Stanford AI Lab.  Later I based my PhD thesis on McCarthy's memo on situational fluents.  I also designed but didn't implement Lisp for the Sigma 7.
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> Later I ran research groups and insisted on Lisp as a requirement.
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> Steve
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> On Oct 31, 2011, at 3:44 PM, todd glassey <tglassey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 10/28/2011 1:25 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>>> First, as someone who chartered the working group, who has
>>>>> implemented Lisp (the programming language) at least four times, and
>>>>> who views Dr. McCarthy as a hero I disagree that name is problematic
>>>>> or disrespectful. And I almost take offense in the claim that this is
>>>>> a generational thing.
>>>> And frankly, if there's disrespect to be found here, IMO it lies in
>>>> using this sad event as a proxy to criticize some IETF work some
>>>> people apparently don't like.
>>
>> So how many people here actually knew or worked with John... or what he was working on?  its a relevant question because there seem to be a number of people speaking from authority... so how many of you were around in the 1960's and 1970's at AI (either MIT or SU)?
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>> I bring this up as TOG@xxxxxxxx...
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