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November 24, 2007 at 2:35 am
Hi, Dan. I only recently found your site. I used to work for ExperTelligence back in 1984-1986. I was at IJCAI in ‘85 at UCLA (I think the year is correct). Do you remember a big Symbolics party at some mansion after IJCAI? I was there. Did you know anyone from ExperTelligence? Of course, there is Denny Bollay, but I’m trying to think of an older gentleman who was part of the US Department of Transportation or something like that under President Johnson (I think), and who was on ExperTelligence’s board of directors. Does that ring any bell? Anyway, I really enjoy reading your posts and I hope to have some of my own soon/again. I’m only now returning to Lisp after many years and it brings back fond memories of my time in the 80s trying sell Lisp for the Mac.
November 24, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Hi, Clint. Gee, it’s been such a long time. ExperTelligence sounds familiar but that’s about all I can remember. At every IJCAI, Symbolics would have a big party, always trying to top what we did the previous year and what everybody else was doing. I wish I still remembered those parties. I do remember that one year, we outdid ourselves by renting an auditorium and having a forum discussion about AI with famous speakers, including Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, James Schlesinger, and some other people plus our CEO, Russell Noftsker. I think it was followed by a dinner; I have a photo in my album of some wacky table decorations, and Patrick Winston and Esther Dyson.
I found a page in the Google cache about ExperTelligence. Monty Cahn? Eric Harrington? William Urschel? Apparently in October 2003, Bollay and Urschel were selling products called WebBase and 3DStockCharts, but with no luck, and they auctioned off the remaining assets of the company. Bollary was subsequently (and maybe still is) involved with a company called MicroMLS which puts real estate multiple listings on a hand-held computer or something like that. He, or someone by that name anyway, co-wrote a proposal for a peer-to-peer networking protocol, in mid-2005.
What are you doing with Lisp? Are you using one of the Common Lisp implementations?
March 6, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Dan,
I’ve missed your posts. Are you still interested in blogging or was it just a phase you went through? I’d love to hear more of your nuggets of wisdom!
Thanks,
Peter
March 19, 2008 at 10:45 am
I want to get back to it; I’ve just been very busy lately. I have about five subjects that I intend to post about. I hope to get some more time to work on this soon. Thanks for the kind words.
May 12, 2008 at 9:37 pm
“Amazingly, Richard Gabriel, in “Patterns of Software”, written in 1998, said at one point that there was now only one computer language: C++.”
Gabriel didn’t say C++, just C.