http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/19/weird-science-in-mits-ai-lab-1966/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 06:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/19/weird-science-in-mits-ai-lab-1966/#comment-5975 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:01:36 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/weird-science-in-mits-ai-lab-1966/#comment-5975 An even closer match for this is the character played by Anthony Edwards (later Dr Mark Greene in ER and the-other-guy in Top Gun) in “Revenge of the Nerds”:
In this link, he is a dead ringer, down to the glasses and hair style:
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And here:
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he’s even wearing the same shirt.
(Can’t seem to insert full URL links but these should work with copy and paste.)
Cheers.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/19/weird-science-in-mits-ai-lab-1966/#comment-5974 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:48:54 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/weird-science-in-mits-ai-lab-1966/#comment-5974 Nice find. I have a fondness for the this place. I programmed AI at NASA in the mid 80s on Symbolics LISP machines, which came out of the AI lab’s work.

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