trivialblogAn ag(e)ing hacker - posts tagged as "computer-science"Luca Saiu's bloghttps://blog.ageinghacker.net/feeds/atom.xml2026-06-02T21:48:38ZLuca Saiupositron@gnu.orgI will remember John McCarthyLuca Saiuhttps://blog.ageinghacker.net/posts/7/2011-10-25T23:55:00ZI’ve just learned that Professor John McCarthy (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnMcCarthy(computerscientist)>) died two days ago on October 23, at the age of 84. He was the father of Lisp, Artificial Intelligence, Non-Monotonic Logics and Situation Calculus; and garbage collection, and time-sharing. An amusingly absent-minded brilliant mathematician and thinker with philosophical inclinations, and a technological optimist. I’ve loved reading his lightly sketched deep thoughts in his plain unassuming style(1), so different from the pretentious generations of big-egoed Lispers who came after him, myself included. And who even cares now if I agree with what he said one hundred percent, or not; I’ve never met ... [Read more]I’ve just learned that Professor John McCarthy (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnMcCarthy(computerscientist)>) died two days ago on October 23, at the age of 84. He was the father of Lisp, Artificial Intelligence, Non-Monotonic Logics and Situation Calculus; and garbage collection, and time-sharing. An amusingly absent-minded brilliant mathematician and thinker with philosophical inclinations, and a technological optimist. I’ve loved reading his lightly sketched deep thoughts in his plain unassuming style(1), so different from the pretentious generations of big-egoed Lispers who came after him, myself included. And who even cares now if I agree with what he said one hundred percent, or not; I’ve never met ... [Read more]