[sdiy] [OT] Hacker Dictionary

[Don Tillman]

   > Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:47:26 -0800
   > From: "Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" <noise at avaya.com>
   > 
   > One of my favorite computer-related stories comes from that book.
   > Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the professor in the
   > story.  

Yes, that's one of my favorites also.  And yeah, it also applies to
analog circuitry.

The professor in question is Tom Knight.  I believe he was a student
at the time, and one of the inventors of the Lisp Machine.  Brilliant
guy.
  http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/tk/tk.html

The story is here:
  http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Some-AI-Koans.html

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
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