[PlanetKR] Celebrating John McCarthy at Stanford University

[Mary-Anne Williams]

A Celebration of John McCarthy's Accomplishments

As you likely noticed, the passing of John McCarthy on October 24 received
considerable attention in the media and there is an account of his legacy
here <http://cs.stanford.edu/content/professor-john-mccarthy>. A free
celebration of his accomplishments will be held on Sunday, March 25th, the
afternoon before the AAAI Spring Symposium which also will be at Stanford
University.

The talks will be held in the Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management
Center and will consist of a two hour series of short talks without slides
beginning at 4:00 PM and followed by a reception in the Oberndorf Event
Center, three floors above the auditorium, and will last until about 7:00
PM. A program committee consisting of Raj Reddy, Nils Nilsson, Ed
Feigenbaum and Les Earnest are recruiting people to speak who worked with
John on various projects over the years and will announce that list here
soon. We plan to video record the talks and post them subsequently on
YouTube.com <http://www.youtube.com/>.

There is underground parking at the Knight Management Center that is free
for all on Sundays. You may find the map and direction
here<http://cs.stanford.edu/celebration-john-mccarthys-accomplishments/directions>
.

We need to know how many people will be coming. If you are coming just for
this celebration please register below, but if you also plan to attend the
AAAI event please register instead
there<http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss12.php>
.

If you would like to say something to both those who are attending and
those who can't make it, please send it to les at cs.stanford.edu with "JMC"
somewhere in the subject line. It will be posed on a blog at
http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/missing.jmc.pdf for all to see.

Feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think might be
interested.
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*Here is the planned program, subject to change.*

 *Name**Title* Susan McCarthyWhat Your Dentist Doesn't Want You to Know Nils
NilssonHighlights of John McCarthy's Career Patrick SuppesEarly days in
John's career Marvin MinskyStarting AI Projects Ed Fredkin . . . I've had
that same idea Les EarnestHow timesharing led to the Internet Raj
Reddy SAIL '63-'69Barbara Liskov
  Memories of my thesis advisor Don KnuthReminiscences Vladimir
LifschitzThe Frame Problem, Then and NowEd FeigenbaumMy
remembrances of John as colleague, scientist and engineer *----------------*
*  BREAK  ----------------* *Name**Title* John ChowningThe A.I. Lab and
Music: to hear and to see Ralph GorinLOTS of later timesharing Steve
RussellAdventures and pioneering with JohnTom CostelloMaking
things better Ted Selker Mccarthy's analytic mind's work to sustain the
future Whit DiffieWhit on John
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