John McCarthy, the creator of Lisp

//=== 1927.09.04 -- 2011.10.24,

• the creator of LISP
   (invent LISP in 1958, first implemented by Steve Russell in machine code on IBM704 in 1959 ?) 
• the father of AI (artificial intelligence)?
  [proposed/coined  the term AI  in 1956 Dartmouth Conference]
• a computer scientist
• a cognitive scientist
• 1959, garbage collection for LISP
• 1971, Turing award
• died suddenly at home in Stanford in the early morning Monday, Oct. 24 2011.

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• born in  Boston, Massachusetts
• father : John Patrick,  Irish immigrant 
• mother: Ida Glatt McCarthy, Lithuanian Jewish immigrant
  (? 從母姓, 用父名)
• was married three times.
  his 2nd wife : Vera Watson, a programmer and mountaineer who died in 1978 attempting to scale Annapurna I.
  his 3rd wife : Carolyn Talcott, a computer scientist
  

•  taught himself mathematics at an early age
• 1948, B.S. in math,  Caltech
• 1951, Ph.D. in math, Princeton
• bushed around Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, MIT
• 1962, full professor at Stanford
• 2000, retired

//=== Progress and its Sustainability
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/



[ref]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/john-mccarthy-obit-102511.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/father_lisp_ai_john_mccarthy_dies/

Dennis Ritchie, the creator of C

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (DMR) ,
1941 Sep.9 -- 2011 Oct. 08

* born in New York
* the creator of C
* a key developer of Unix
* co-author of  K&R's  "The C Programming Language"

1967, Bell Lab
1983, Turing Award

[ref]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

Steve Jobs, 56

[ http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ ]
『

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend 

and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built,

and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

』


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Steven Paul Jobs( Steve Jobs )
1955 February 24 – 2011 October 5

為Paul  Jobs  與 Clara Jobs 收養, 從養父姓
生父母 Abdulfattah John Jandali, Joanne Schieble (後來改姓 Simpson?)


2004,
suspected pancreatic cancer
islet cell neuroendocrine tumor


2009 April, liver implant
2011 Aug. 24,  resigned from the role as Apple's CEO
2011 Oct. 5, died peacefully

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1976, Apple (Co-founded  with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne)
1985, NeXT
1986, Graphics Group (bought from Lucasfilm) -> Pixar -> Merged with Disney in 2006

1996, Apple bought NeXT
1997, Return to Apple -> Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad


[ref]
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs