On Wednesday 10 March 2004 22:58, Joseph A Dempster wrote: > Did George really get his PHD in the 80's?
I think a bit earlier, actually but I don't know for certain -- memory loss is starting to set in. To go head-to-head and argue design with the PARC crowd during that period, he'd have been at a serious disadvantage without one. Still, by the time I met him at CSLI he'd already been working with Spinrad and the Dmachine black gang for about 6 years. He (and Marvin Minsky @ MIT ) were remarkable advocates for the seminar and footnote style of education (give me 3 beers and get me started on this topic, and we'll be storming the barricades to revamp the US "education" system by the end of the evening). Great publisher and writer, spoke and read about 6 or 8 languages, and knew where to find any obscure book you might ever want in translation or in the original. *serious* used book junkie -- and a consumer of really high quality space opera -- and guaranteed to have genuine pulp editions of any decent SF writer published in the late 1950s. One of those people that *knew* he was getting up in the morning to go change the world, and constantly delighted in every new day. The world's a sadder place without him. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
