I still (attempt to) follow his guidelines for writing. Patrick Henry Winston, z"l
Patrick Winston has died
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#12His excellent "How to Speak" lectures can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F536001A3C605FC
About a year ago, he shared that he had a draft of a new book on "Communication":
https://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/favorites.html
Was this ever finished?
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#13RIP. I'm deeply saddened by this news.
How did he die?
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#14I only had a few hallway conversations with him, but they were always delightful and I always walked away having learned something new. He was a good scholar and an admirable human being. RIP.
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#15Patrick Winston was a AI Pioneer, I watched some of his MIT Lectures and read his book that was truly world class.
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#16Very sad, he was an amazing teacher. I love his MIT 6.034 lectures on youtube. One of the best is the SVM lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwhiWxHK8o -- it's awesome how he gives the lecture to completion without any notes.
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#17His excellent "How to Speak" lectures can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F536001A3C605FC
About a year ago, he shared that he had a draft of a new book on "Communication": https://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/favorites.html Was this ever finished?
It was!
It's in the final stages of publication — I've seen an editor's print in its final form — although I'm not sure what will happen to it now. I would guess it will still be published.
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#19This makes me very sad. Patrick H. Winston was a brilliant man and a very nice person. He was my student advisor at MIT and agreed to serve on the advisory board of a startup company I founded. I had the privilege of meeting him again at his lab a few years back. He was still doing leading edge research and had tremendous enthusiasm for his work and his students. He will definitely be missed.
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#20RIP Pat Winston - he infuriated me the most when he said something so obviously true and which I wanted to be false. One example: "No one will ever read your paper in entirety, so write for the skimmers." As much as I loved his technical lectures, I especially remembered his peripheral aphorisms.
But he said one thing that I immediately agreed with (conceptually) and have recalled at many hard times in my life: "Perhaps we will look back on even this with fondness." (But in Latin, because Pat Winston)