<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">[Sorry, folks, there was a mailer problem with a version of this I sent earlier in the day, so I am resending it]<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ed Feigenbaum<BR><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><BR><B>Subject:</B> Margaret Masterman<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Like a flash of lightning from the past. When I was on my Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship in 1959-60 in England, I got to know</DIV> <DIV>Margaret and her husband who was an eminent philosopher of the time. Margaret was very good in the newly emerging field of</DIV> <DIV>computational linguistics, one of its founders in fact.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>My intro to Margaret and her husband was through Karen Spark-Jones, who was either still a doctoral student or a new D. Phil. of Margaret's.</DIV> <DIV>(Karen died of cancer a few weeks ago; she is the recipient of the 2007 ACM Allen Newell Award). Karen and her husband, Roger Needham (who was</DIV> <DIV>working for Wilkes at the time) traveled to where I was, at the National Physical Laboratory south of London, to learn from me about the IPL list processing languages.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>I subsequently spent much time with them in Cambridge, hence met Margaret and her husband, dined at their house, had memorable discussions</DIV> <DIV>with them, etc.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Is it depressing or exhilarating to remember days in 1959-60 as if they were just yesterday?</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Best wishes</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Ed Feigenbaum<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>On Apr 22, 2007, at 11:21 AM, H.M. Gladney wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">A snippet that I find interesting, about 1 of the 5 members of Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1933-4 class "Philosophy for Mathematicians":</FONT></P><P><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">"philosopher Margaret Masterman (a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics, her beliefs about language processing by computers were ahead of their time and are now fundamental to the field of artificial intelligence);"</FONT></P><P><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">From</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B><I> King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter</I></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">, 2006, ISBN 0-8027-1499-4. For context, I am attaching two OCR'd pages of this book. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 11px"><<...>></SPAN></FONT></P><P><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 11px">Cheerio, Henry</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT><BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 11px">H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 11px">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney</SPAN></FONT></A></P><SPAN> <DIV><Coxeter excerpt with LW.doc></DIV></SPAN> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV><BR> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>