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Article #624034Looking for info on early MIT hacker David Silver (of 'Hackers' and Silver Arm fame)
From: Schol-R-LEA2
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:21
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:21
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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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