Still awaiting a better source. The Wikipedia entry asserting his death has been reversed at the time of this writing...
John McCarthy Has Died
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#22Sorry but, what is your source ?
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#23Here's the 1960 paper describing the original Lisp: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/recursive.html
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#24Still awaiting a better source. The Wikipedia entry asserting his death has been reversed at the time of this writing...
Yeah, i'm still waiting on a source too other than twitter
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#25This really needs a better source. There's no citation provided, and Wikipedia can't keep any details of his death up without one. Basically, I have a spoonful of salt to hand.
Yes, there isn't any news about this.
This might be a good way to make people read about this kind of person.
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#26McCarthy's wife died in 1977 in a climbing accident
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Vera.h...
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#27This really needs a better source. There's no citation provided, and Wikipedia can't keep any details of his death up without one. Basically, I have a spoonful of salt to hand.
Agreed. I did a quick Google News search and turned up nothing. Could be legit, or vandalism, but there's really no way to know until we have confirmation.
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--EDIT-- Since I wrote this, I've seen one source appear, in Portuguese[1]. It's still unclear whether this story is legitimate, or if they simply copied wikipedia / the buzz surrounding the story.
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--EDIT 2-- Globo is apparently the largest media conglomerate in South America[2] and thus unlikely to publish unsourced stories, so this looks (sadly) to be true.
[1] http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2011/10/morre-john-mc...
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#28This seems to be the original tweet http://twitter.com/#!/wendyg/status/128554733714669568
Not to be "that guy", but does she have any connection to him? Why should I believe she isn't just some random that made that up?
Looking at her linked webpage from Twitter, she's a freelance journalist who has written on tech topics, including articles about McCarthy.
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#29This really needs a better source. There's no citation provided, and Wikipedia can't keep any details of his death up without one. Basically, I have a spoonful of salt to hand.
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#30Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie, and now John McCarthy - maybe some truth that deaths always come in 3's. Quite unnerving. We should propose National Computing Month or something for October.
Poisson distribution? I wish I knew more probability and statistics to understand why this happens.