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R.I.P John McCarthy

October 25th, 2011 No Comments »
R.I.P. John McCarthy
John McCarthy, 1927-2011
(Creator of Lisp and more)

This giant, John McCarthy stood at the cradle of AI, Lisp, and theoretical computer science. Like us, he loved elegant mathematics.


R.I.P. dmr

October 13th, 2011 No Comments »

Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011
(Unix co-creator, creator of C, and more)

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