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AI pioneer Patrick Winston has passed away.
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menti...@gmail.com
Jul 19, 2019, 9:39:34 PM7/19/19
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It was a shock a few minutes ago to visit Hacker News and read
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20482768 -- Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died (mit.edu)
As an AI enthusiast, I have been at a lecture by his predecessor Marvin Minsky and at a book-signing by his successor Rodney Brooks, but I never had the opportunity to come face-to-face with Patrick Winston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Winston -- has already been updated.
One commenter on Hacker News wrote:
"But he said one thing that I immediately agreed with (conceptually) and have recalled at many hard times in my life: "Perhaps we will look back on even this with fondness." (But in Latin, because Pat Winston)"
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit" is the original quote -- which every classicist knows by heart -- from Vergil's Aeneid.
All the greats of AI have been passing away -- Marvin Minsky; John McCarthy et al., and now Patrick Winston. So we who toil on are standing on the shoulders of giants.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20482768 -- Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died (mit.edu)
As an AI enthusiast, I have been at a lecture by his predecessor Marvin Minsky and at a book-signing by his successor Rodney Brooks, but I never had the opportunity to come face-to-face with Patrick Winston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Winston -- has already been updated.
One commenter on Hacker News wrote:
"But he said one thing that I immediately agreed with (conceptually) and have recalled at many hard times in my life: "Perhaps we will look back on even this with fondness." (But in Latin, because Pat Winston)"
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit" is the original quote -- which every classicist knows by heart -- from Vergil's Aeneid.
All the greats of AI have been passing away -- Marvin Minsky; John McCarthy et al., and now Patrick Winston. So we who toil on are standing on the shoulders of giants.
Rich Alderson
Jul 23, 2019, 7:59:20 PM7/23/19
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menti...@gmail.com writes:
> It was a shock a few minutes ago to visit Hacker News and read
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20482768 -- Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL
> has died (mit.edu)
> As an AI enthusiast, I have been at a lecture by his predecessor Marvin
> Minsky and at a book-signing by his successor Rodney Brooks, but I never had
> the opportunity to come face-to-face with Patrick Winston.
I had dinner one evening with Pat Winston at O'Hare Airport in the late autumn
> It was a shock a few minutes ago to visit Hacker News and read
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20482768 -- Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL
> has died (mit.edu)
> As an AI enthusiast, I have been at a lecture by his predecessor Marvin
> Minsky and at a book-signing by his successor Rodney Brooks, but I never had
> the opportunity to come face-to-face with Patrick Winston.
of 1983. He was on a stopover for a connecting flight to Champaign-Urbana from
Boston, and I had applied for the system mamager position at the AI Lab. We
had a nice chat, and that was that.
I met him again at the 1984 NCAI in Austin, where we talked about the fact that
I had just interviewed at Stanford (the job that brought me to where I am today).
A true gentleman and scholar.
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Rich Alderson ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
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