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6. Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy Dies At 84.

6. Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy Dies At 84. I really enjoyed reading his eulogy. [NYT] John McCarthy, a computer scientist who helped design the foundation of today’s Internet-based computing and who is widely credited with coining the term for a frontier of research he helped pioneer, Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., died on Monday at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 84.
"He remained an independent thinker throughout his life. Some years ago, one of his daughters presented him with a license plate bearing one of his favorite aphorisms: “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.”
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