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• The Dysons (Score:3, Funny)

  by ziggy (25) on 2003.04.28 22:44 (#19549) Journal

  And, last but not least, George Dyson talking about von Neumann.

  A few years ago, a friend of mine saw Freeman Dyson give a lecture based on the work he did that led up to The Sun, the Genome and the Internet [amazon.com]. (I didn't attend the lecture, but the book was absolutely wonderful.)

  My friend tries to tell me about this lecture. He remembers some of the main themes of the talk, but he draws a blank the presenter's name:

  It was that famous dude. That old guy. Whatshisname. Esther Dyson's father.

  :-)

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  • Re:The Dysons (Score:3, Funny)

    by gnat (29)

    "Esther Dyson's father" indeed. Oy. That's like calling Larry Wall "the guy who wrote Shell.pm" :-)

    --Nat
    • Re:The Dysons (Score:2, Funny)

      by pdcawley (485)

      Yeah! Everyone knows that Larry Wall's the guy that wrote rn
      • Re:The Dysons (Score:2, Informative)

        by Dom2 (2981)

        rn? perl? Nope, Larry's real contribution to the Internet and Unix was writing patch. Everybody knows that!

        -Dom
        • Re:The Dysons (Score:1)

          by jmm (276)

          patch? rn? perl?

          Forget about them. Larry's stellar contribution, the one the established his name in the universe of programming stars, was warp.