I fondly remember his LISP book.
Patrick Winston has died
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#32RIP Professor Best teacher I've ever had, he let me audit all his classes and took me/my ideas seriously at all times. And would grade my papers even though I was never an official student, or his his words "a paying customer." First Minsky now Patrick. RIP and perhaps they are both back in touch. ;(
Instead of thinking about how they are both back in touch, why not assume a step further. They are in touch, and they are hoping that you are doing _______ with the most passion [in which they have yet to witness ;)]. Now fill that in and use it as adrenaline to accomplish your next (big, relatively) feat. Your thoughts? RIP PW
I appreciate you friend
I would like to consider this and get back to you
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#33I wanted to attend MIT since i was ten, though sadly it didnt happen for me (because of choices)
But one thing is that i am always amazed (and saddened) on HN when i hear about the death of a pillar of our industry whom i had never previously known about.
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#34This is a great loss. Coincidentally I just started reading his thesis last week: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/13800
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#35I really liked his advice on how to pack and present ideas using the Winston Star formulation
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-package-your...
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#36I loved his series of "On To" books, e.g. "On To C", "On To C++", "On To Java". They were perfect when I was starting out and remained models of clarity when I started teaching.
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#37This 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.
You have been extremely lucky. I only had him for 6.034 and the overall encouragement he gave me and so many other students. Solving death simply must be a higher priority.
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#38I went to MIT my first year as a summer intern to work with a different professor than Patrick, this professor was close with him and since he liked my work so much asked Patrick to write a letter of recommendation for me to stay at MIT since I needed two.
I took both of his classes and used to "steal" the coffee from his office since he had an espresso machine and we needed it for our 3am late nights. Fuck.. its rough to think that place in my life is disappearing a bit more everyday. 3 professors from my time there are gone already, Minsky, Seth Teller and now him. :(
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#39Thanks to him GNU was allowed to happen
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#40RIP 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: "Perh…
"No one will ever read your paper in entirety, so write for the skimmers."
Fantastic advice!