John von Neumann was busy dying. Anyway he disapproved of the Newell-Simon work on chess, probably of AI in general. made me laugh. When McCarthy had just die

John von Neumann was busy dying. Anyway he disapproved of the Newell-Simon work on chess, probably of AI in general. made me laugh. When McCarthy had just died I remember a video from a fellow that worked with him somewhere talking about how until the day of his death he had massive amounts of bandwidth piped into his house, and that the fellow wondered what he did with it all, sort of like a mad scientist. I still wonder sometimes when I think about him. I sort of like to think that he was busting out work towards the 'obstacle' points in this paper 'til the very end.