Kemeny was a really interesting guy. His obituary[1] gives some good background on him. I read his 1972 book, "Man and the Computer"[2], in the early 90s. Some

Kemeny was a really interesting guy. His obituary[1] gives some good background on him. I read his 1972 book, "Man and the Computer"[2], in the early 90s. Some of his predictions about how computers would be used in the future (ubiquitous networking, online shopping, etc) were spot-on. His idea of "mainframes" providing centralized services seemed backwards to me in the early 90s, when I was just getting my PC onto the Internet for the first time, but it appears that he got that one right too. [1] http://www.columbia.edu/~jrh29/kemeny.html http://www.columbia.edu/~jrh29/kemeny.html [2] https://archive.org/details/mancomputer00keme https://archive.org/details/mancomputer00keme