Roger Schank happened to be the reason why I got interested in AI in the first place. I read a German translation of a popular science book in high school - I'v

Roger Schank happened to be the reason why I got interested in AI in the first place. I read a German translation of a popular science book in high school - I've tried to find out the title and author again without success. (Maybe Schank was the co-author?) It was about his group and how they watched Mork & Mindy on Friday afternoons because Mork made so many interesting, intelligent mistakes. This book and Schank & Riesbeck's Conceptual Dependency Theory was the reason I decided to study "AI." Unfortunately, we only had a new line of study called cognitive science then, and the psychologists didn't really integrate well. So I ended up studying Philosophy and General Linguistics (at a center for computational linguistics). Fast forward 30 years and I'm now organizing my own seminar series on Friday afternoons and participate in a EU project on XAI. However, I should have stayed in computational linguistics, going into philosophy was a mistake. Anyway, I wish I had met Schank to tell him how much his early work on CD influenced me.