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From: vrotney@netcom.com (William Paul Vrotney)
Subject: Re: John McCarthy
In-Reply-To: jharper@bs2000.com's message of Mon, 12 Feb 1996 09:07:46 +1100
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In article <jharper-1202960907460001@p34.denver1.dialup.csn.net>
jharper@bs2000.com (Jack Harper) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know what Dr. John McCarthy is up to these days? Is he still
> at Stanford? Is he still alive? Is he still active in AI/LISP? et. al.
> 
> Thanks for any replies...
> 
> Jack (programming LISP since 1971)
> 

I recently did some work at Stanford and passed Dr. McCarthy a few times,
this was in December 1995.  Someone on campus told me he was sick, but he
looked fine to me.  Also a few years ago I took a course in Non-monotonic
Reasoning from Dr. McCarthy and then later a seminar on the same subject of
which he seemed enthusiastic, so Default Reasoning is a guess as to where
his head is these days.  Also these URLs were in my hot list:

        http://www.stanford.edu = Stanford university home page
        http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc = John McCarthy home page

When I took that course I remember Dr. McCarthy in a reference to Lisp
saying "They blame me for Lisp".  I wondered then if that was just one of
his humorous ways of saying something or if he had actually become
anti-Lisp.  If you find out more please post.




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William P. Vrotney - vrotney@netcom.com
