John McCarthy has passed away

[myampol]

Died on Monday at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 84.​

• Credited with coining the term "Artificial Intelligence" while at Dartmouth.

• Co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.

• Inventor of LISP and "Garbage Collection".

• Founder of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

• Co-creator of public-key cryptography.

• One of his favorite aphorisms: “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.”​

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/science/26mccarthy.html

 

[SYau]

RIP!

 

[benzbubblecat]

first Dennis Ritchie and now him...October sucks so far for computer science.

 

[bansalmohit]

first Dennis Ritchie and now him...October sucks so far for computer science.

Steve Jobs?

 

[Yike Lu]

God wrote in LISP.

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/eternal-flame.html

Yes, God had a deadline.
So he wrote it all in Lisp.

RIP

 

[benzbubblecat]

Steve Jobs?

Also sad, but I wouldn't call him a computer scientist in the same way that these guys were.

 

[alain]

Steve Jobs?

Steve Jobs didn't do anything for Computer Science

 

[iniesta]

RIP