LXer: Farewell to a forebear of open source, Marvin Minsky
 

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Last week one of the founding fathers of personal computing, Marvin Minsky, died at age 88.*It so happened that I’d been reading about some of Minsky’s work at MIT in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution*by Steven Levy.*Levy recounts how in 1961 Minsky encouraged and supported some of the first human encounters with real tread more

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