Farewell to a forebear of open source, Marvin Minsky

Posted by bob on Feb 1, 2016 2:29 PM EDT
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Last week one of the founding fathers of personal computing, Marvin Minsky, died at age 88. It so happened that I’d been reading about some of Minsky’s work at MIT in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. Levy recounts how in 1961 Minsky encouraged and supported some of the first human encounters with real t read more

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