doctorate
vanekl
doctorate in science from Harvard.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html
Pascal Bourguignon
It was time he gets his doctorate! 60 years to write his thesis? No
surprize lisp is not more popular! :-)
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
"Indentation! -- I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!"
Ken Tilton
Cool. And they described Lisp as "still in use today". I guess the smell
didn't fool them.
kt
--
http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/
http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/
ECLM rant:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1331906677993764413&hl=en
ECLM talk:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9173722505157942928&q=&hl=en
Rainer Joswig
Pascal Bourguignon <p...@informatimago.com> wrote:
> vanekl <va...@acd.net> writes:
>
> > Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary
> > doctorate in science from Harvard.
> >
> > http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html
>
> It was time he gets his doctorate! 60 years to write his thesis? No
> surprize lisp is not more popular! :-)
It was lots of work for him:
http://lispm.dyndns.org/standard-output/mc.jpg
That's a picture I made at the International Lisp
Conference 2003 in New York - he was still working
on it with is Apple PowerBook!
vanekl
And in related news, a fiction writer was on hand to receive an honorary
doctorate in letters, J.K. Rowling. You don't have to be a scientist/wizard
to earn a doctorate at Havard, you just have to be able to write fictional
accounts of the same. Did I mention that we do things a little differently
here in the colonies?
Ken Tilton
It was interesting to see how much planning went into the series, I
believe starting seven years before the first book came out. Makes me
feel not so bad about the Algebra software.
vanekl
>
>
> vanekl wrote:
>> vanekl wrote:
>>
>>> Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary
>>> doctorate in science from Harvard.
>>>
>>> http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html
>>
>>
>> And in related news, a fiction writer was on hand to receive an honorary
>> doctorate in letters, J.K. Rowling. You don't have to be a
>> scientist/wizard
>> to earn a doctorate at Havard, you just have to be able to write
>> fictional
>> accounts of the same. Did I mention that we do things a little
>> differently
>> here in the colonies?
>
> It was interesting to see how much planning went into the series, I
> believe starting seven years before the first book came out. Makes me
> feel not so bad about the Algebra software.
>
> kt
>
She talks about having to write a lot of less than stellar work before she
became accomplished. Taking seven or more years to master your craft is not
unreasonable, to me at least.
Edi Weitz
> It was lots of work for him:
>
> http://lispm.dyndns.org/standard-output/mc.jpg
>
> That's a picture I made at the International Lisp Conference 2003 in
> New York - he was still working on it with is Apple PowerBook!
It was his /own/ PowerBook? Kenny has told us a million times that
McCarthy used /his/ laptop and I actually believed him!!!
Edi.
--
Lisp is not dead, it just smells funny.
Real email: (replace (subseq "spam...@agharta.de" 5) "edi")
Rainer Joswig
wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:40:15 +0200, Rainer Joswig <jos...@lisp.de> wrote:
>
> > It was lots of work for him:
> >
> > http://lispm.dyndns.org/standard-output/mc.jpg
> >
> > That's a picture I made at the International Lisp Conference 2003 in
> > New York - he was still working on it with is Apple PowerBook!
>
> It was his /own/ PowerBook? Kenny has told us a million times that
> McCarthy used /his/ laptop and I actually believed him!!!
>
> Edi.
ROTFL
:-)
Ken Tilton
Edi Weitz wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:40:15 +0200, Rainer Joswig <jos...@lisp.de> wrote:
>
>
>>It was lots of work for him:
>>
>> http://lispm.dyndns.org/standard-output/mc.jpg
>>
>>That's a picture I made at the International Lisp Conference 2003 in
>>New York - he was still working on it with is Apple PowerBook!
>
>
> It was his /own/ PowerBook? Kenny has told us a million times that
> McCarthy used /his/ laptop and I actually believed him!!!
See those two people standing talking? Left as an exercise is figuring
out which of them owned the laptop John was poaching.
:)