[ih] John McCarthy
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Oct 26 09:48:37 PDT 2011
> From: Guy Almes <galmes at tamu.edu>
> We note with sadness the death of John McCarthy.
> ...
> Any comments?
To me, one of his biggest influences was his early foundational work on
time-sharing systems; more here:
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html
All modern computers are basically time-sharing systems, just mostly
single-user ones.
The AP obit is here:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111025/D9QJJS901.html
Kinda short, though...
Noel
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