I concur with Mike'overview, though I never worked in the same
department as Robin, I have interacted with him in many ways
since I first spent a year in Edinburgh in 1972-3 learning about
AI, including learning to use Pop2.
Robin Popplestone was a great character and he taught me many
things, both through his programming language design, through
personal interaction and through the work done by others he had
influenced.
Just think: if it had not been for Robin, some of us would have
had to be Lisp programmers....
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk (ReadATas@please !)
PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/ (And free book on Philosophy of AI)
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