[COFF] Happy Birthday, Donald Michie and Robert Fano!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Nov 11 06:05:40 AEST 2018


Donald Michie, a computer scientist, was born in 1923; he was famous for 
his work in AI, and also worked at Bletchley Park on the "Tunny" cipher.

And Robert Fano, Computer scientist and Professor of Electrical 
Engineering at MIT, was born on this day in 1917.  He worked with Claude 
Shannon on Information Theory, was involved in the development of 
time-sharing computers, and was Founding Director of Project Mac, which 
became MIT's AI Lab.

-- Dave


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