And speaking of mortality...

[jducoeur]

In between the various bad news (the hospitalization of Sen. Tim Johnson, the passing of Master Joram), I found out last night that Seymour Papert, one of the godfathers of modern AI, is in a coma. He was hit by a motorbike while in Vietnam last week, working on the One Laptop Per Child project. Google News has plenty of links to articles on the story, which I discovered while reading a cast-off copy of The Tech.

Not quite a potentially world-shaking as the Johnson story, nor as personal as Joram's, but still -- it's always a little sobering to see someone who has done so much good work fighting for his life...

Comments

[eclecticmagpie.livejournal.com]

This story (http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5803497&nav=menu20_3) is a little more upbeat than the bones of the story that you mentioned, though he's still clearly in a great deal of danger.