##UpdateInterview Archive
Hi everyone - break from gamedev for computer science with historical notes. In 23 hours from me writing, I will be interviewing Kent M. Pitman (Wikipedia) whom took over chair of the ANSI Common Lisp committee as well as contributing its Condition System on our Lispy Gopher Climate weekly live podcast. The specific topic is Kent’s summer initially creating the CREF editor at the Open University in England, as written up back at the MIT AI lab in AI Memo AIM-829.
CREF was a good-old-fashioned system that used tagging to build new particular answers out of fragments of dense, nonspecific technical dialogue. This included generating draft/textual sketches of new computer programs. If we wish really hard (and get enough attention) we can convince Kent to release his hardcopy preserved demo of normal CREF useage after the interview.
See Kent’s thread on the Mastodon.
And this blog announcement on this alt mastodon you might have seen. I will migrate to Hairylarry’s mastodon for next week.
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The live show is an mp3 stream at 000UTC Wednesday 14 March which is Tuesday night in America at aNONradio, and the livechat takes place (dust off your tinyfugue / tintin++ / telnet client) in LambdaMOO.
/PLEASE/ show up and engage with Kent (well, I will read your questions and comments to him live) particularly about his CREF. If you cannot make it live, please leave questions and comments in Kent’s thread on the Mastodon.
There will be a higher-quality archive at the show’s peertube. (To be clear there are years of weekly live episodes, just not migrated to peertube yet) for people in Europe who cannot stay up all night to attend, like Schroeder does.