RIP Donald Michie
The BBC reports that Prof Michie and his wife, a famous geneticist, have been killed in a car crash.
Only people who have had some contact with AI, or machine intelligence as he preferred, are likely to have heard of Donald Michie. And of those of us who had heard of that, we didn’t know that he had been working with Turing and others in breaking Nazi cryptographics during the war.
We must remember the efforts of all those hidden people who worked and died to preserve the freedoms that we take so easily for granted here. Most of the planet’s population are not as lucky as us.
