From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Happy Birthday, Donald Michie and Robert Fano!
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:05:40 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811110701480.33687@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
Donald Michie, a computer scientist, was born in 1923; he was famous for
his work in AI, and also worked at Bletchley Park on the "Tunny" cipher.
And Robert Fano, Computer scientist and Professor of Electrical
Engineering at MIT, was born on this day in 1917. He worked with Claude
Shannon on Information Theory, was involved in the development of
time-sharing computers, and was Founding Director of Project Mac, which
became MIT's AI Lab.
-- Dave
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