Celebration of John McCarthy's Accomplishments

As you likely noticed, the passing of John McCarthy on October 24 received considerable attention in the media and there is an account of his legacy here. A free celebration of his accomplishments will be held on Sunday, March 25th, the afternoon before the AAAI Spring Symposium which also will be at Stanford University.

The talks will be held in the Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center and will consist of a two hour series of short talks without slides beginning at 4:00 PM and followed by a reception in the Oberndorf Event Center, three floors above the auditorium, and will last until about 7:00 PM. A program committee consisting of Raj Reddy, Nils Nilsson, Ed Feigenbaum and Les Earnest are recruiting people to speak who worked with John on various projects over the years and will announce that list here soon. We plan to video record the talks and post them subsequently on YouTube.com.

There is underground parking at the Knight Management Center that is free for all on Sundays. You may find the map and direction here.

We need to know how many people will be coming. If you are coming just for this celebration please register below, but if you also plan to attend the AAAI event please register instead there.

If you would like to say something to both those who are attending and those who can't make it, please send it to les@cs.stanford.edu with "JMC" somewhere in the subject line. It will be posed on a blog at http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/missing.jmc.pdf for all to see.

Feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think might be interested.

Here is the planned program, subject to change.