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In the Shadow of John McCarthy

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/11/03/in-the-shadow-of-john-mccarthy/

by llambda • 15 years ago

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codypo• 15 years ago

For a lighter side of both Steve Russell and Alan Kotok, you absolutely must read Steven Levy's Hackers.

A large chunk of this book deals with the very early computer scene of MIT in the late 1950s and 1960s. Both of those guys played a big role, especially Russell. He developed a game, Spacewar, that just enraptured the whole PDP crowd and led to this mania of gameplay and hacking, gameplay and hacking, etc.

It is really a delightful book. It's great to see these gentlemen recognized for their more formal contributions.

Kafka2• 15 years ago

"Even in 1969 the AI lab had a direct news feed from the New York Times. And on-line text chatting between users, with video support was possible"

Kafka2• 15 years ago

From the comment by David Luckham.

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