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The days of our youth are the days of our glory.
 

Six participants in the 1960 Algol conference in Paris. The picture was taken at the 1974 ACM conference on the history of programming languages. Top row: jmc, Fritz Bauer, Joe Wegstein. Bottom row: John Backus, Peter Naur, Alan Perlis.

 This is the question: Whether 'tis more cost-effective to trade in or not to trade in. The brain I see before me would infinitely improve my jests.
  Bart Nagel took the picture. Look at his others.
 
  Hear Hubert Dreyfus on AI, as interpreted by Joseph Gunther and Kitty Rose McCarthy.

John McCarthy jmc@cs.stanford.edu