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Ask HN: Why has Stanford killed the home page of John McCarthy?
Since a few weeks http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc is down. This is super annoying, because tons of links pointing to this site and didn't work anymore. Why would Stanford want to
destroy all that knowledge?
You can visit a capture of JMCs site here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20131011125002/http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/
- ggchappell 13y agoIt was probably done by someone who'd never heard of Dr. McCarthy, as a matter of standard procedure. Stanford hosts websites for employees. Is one J. McCarthy still an employee? Nope, so kill the site. You might want to send a formal request (to whom I don't know) to have the page permanently hosted. Possibly some form of petition might help.
- kennethtilton 13y agoThanks, your query led to my belated discovery of http://cs.stanford.edu/jmc http://cs.stanford.edu/jmc And this: http://library.stanford.edu/collections/john-mccarthy-papers-0 http://library.stanford.edu/collections/john-mccarthy-papers... Agreed, tho, the links should be salvaged.
- Lindemann 13y agoUpdate: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc is back...finally!