| Looking for info on early MIT hacker David Silver (of 'Hackers' and Silver Arm fame) [message #369469] |
Sat, 23 June 2018 21:21  |
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Originally posted by: Schol-R-LEA;2
The title more or less covers it: if anyone knows any personal or professional details about the David Silver who had worked on waldo armatures circa 1970-76 at MIT, and in particular what has happened to him since then, I would appreciate it.
I am asking mainly because I had added a Wicked-Pedo entry on him recently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Silver_(roboticist)), only to find that I couldn't find any significant details about him beyond what was mentioned in Steven Levy's /Hackers/, from 1984 (there may have been more about him in the updated editions, but I haven't read those yet). .
Not that this is *not* the same David Silver currently at working on Alpha Go at Google; the one I am looking for was already working in the field when that Silver was born. I had an interest in him mainly because he'd been one of the 'MIT urchins' like Deutsch and Knight, kids in their teens who were hanging around the Project MAC office in the 1960s without much oversight. I just was curious as to how some of them turned out.
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| Re: Looking for info on early MIT hacker David Silver (of 'Hackers' and Silver Arm fame) [message #369514 is a reply to message #369469] |
Sun, 24 June 2018 19:17  |
Michael Black
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2018, Schol-R-LEA;2 wrote:
> The title more or less covers it: if anyone knows any personal or
> professional details about the David Silver who had worked on waldo
> armatures circa 1970-76 at MIT, and in particular what has happened to
> him since then, I would appreciate it.
>
> I am asking mainly because I had added a Wicked-Pedo entry on him
> recently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Silver_(roboticist)), only
> to find that I couldn't find any significant details about him beyond
> what was mentioned in Steven Levy's /Hackers/, from 1984 (there may have
> been more about him in the updated editions, but I haven't read those
> yet). .
>
I've only glanced at a later edition, but as I recall, it was just a
chapter or two added at the end, no major updating of the people. So I
don't have a later edition to check.
> Not that this is *not* the same David Silver currently at working on
> Alpha Go at Google; the one I am looking for was already working in the
> field when that Silver was born. I had an interest in him mainly because
> he'd been one of the 'MIT urchins' like Deutsch and Knight, kids in
> their teens who were hanging around the Project MAC office in the 1960s
> without much oversight. I just was curious as to how some of them turned
> out.
>
Maybe he went into something completely different. I remember Marc
LeBrun, who seemed to have a similar role at SAIL, he became the "computer
guy" for CoEvolution Quarterly, and I never saw anything more about him
until that book "What the Doremouse Said", which actually detais his
place. So if someone was "minor" at the time, there just might not be
much written about him alter.
And by the way, there are two Peter Deuctch's though their last name may
be spelled differently, I can't remember. I know I saw the name in the
local paper about 20 years ago, he was at McGill and had been a force in
bringing the Internet to Montreal (presumably via McGill initially), but
he also was one of the people who started Bunyip. I had to look to
discover that it wasn't the same Peter that was in "Hackers". He once
replied to a thread in the local newsgroup, but I haven'ts een his name
since then.
Michael
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