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I have to play Devil's advocate here. An interesting spelling corrector does not place someone in the annals of computer science history as "one of the most inf

by rudiger 15y ago

I have to play Devil's advocate here. An interesting spelling corrector does not place someone in the annals of computer science history as "one of the most influential computer scientists of the post-Turing era."

angrycoder 15y ago
The spell checker is an accessible example of his work, not his entire body of work.
EliAndrewC 15y ago
I think that the spelling corrector was cited to support the grandparent's assertion that Norvig can "communicate them so well that you feel it was so obvious that you should have found it immediately".
jshen 15y ago
Not sure if you know, but he wrote the canonical AI book, and another amazing book on AI.