Marvin Minsky dies at 88
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.<p>"What are you doing?", asked Minsky.<p>"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied.<p>"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.<p>"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.<p>Minsky then shut his eyes.<p>"Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher.<p>"So that the room will be empty."<p>At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.<p>RIP.