[UFO Chicago] At Least Knuth Still Lives

[Brian Sobolak]

On Mon, February 1, 2016 5:43 am, Jay F. Shachter wrote:
>
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Neil R. Ormos would write on Tue
> Jan 26 14:05:41 2016:
>
>
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>> In case you missed this this in the hubbub of other news:
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>> Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
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>>  <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html>
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>> --Neil Ormos
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>
> I am greatly saddened to hear this; it means that the founding
> generation is dying off.
>
>   "we that are young
>    Shall never see so much, nor live so long."
>
> But what truly surprises me is that there has been no discussion in
> this forum of the death of a much younger man, Ian Murdock.  It is now
> more than a month since he died, and still there is no word on the
> cause of death.  First he Tweeted that he would commit suicide; then
> he Tweeted that he would not; then his Twitter account was taken
> down.  And now, more than a month later, still no report by the
> authorities.  What is going on?
>
>

We discussed this some at one of the recent meetings.

brian

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