He could have read the paper without paying attention to the authors names, or he could have forgotten them. I certainly have forgotten the names of various au

He could have read the paper without paying attention to the authors names, or he could have forgotten them. I certainly have forgotten the names of various authors of papers and books I have read, even those that made an impact on me. When I happened across more of their works years later, I thought I'd never heard of them. I actually have a concrete example of this. I recently had my attention drawn to David Chapman's Masters and PhD theses and some of his other works. I thought I'd never heard of him, but then I realized he was the editor of How to do research at the MIT AI lab, which I've read a bunch of times, and still return to on occasion.