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What do you think of Larry David and Curb Your Enthusiasm? -Tom Mcilroy, MelbourneBrilliant. I don't know where he gets his ideas from. He says, "When I think of something, I write it down." He must constantly be walking down the street thinking, "That's a sketch. That's a sketch." He's great. I hate...
...activity is so pervasive that it has inspired a verb. "Scrapbooking is the quilting bee of this century," says Deana McIlroy, a mother of two who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and gets together with friends and a consultant (yes, there are certified experts in the field) to scrapbook. The Hobby Industry Association estimates that more than $300 million was spent on scrapbooks last year, up from about $200 million...
Core War was the brainstorm of three Bell Labs programmers then in their early 20s: H. Douglas McIlroy, Victor Vysottsky and Robert Morris. Like Von Neumann, they recognized that computers were vulnerable to a peculiar kind of self-destruction. The machines employed the same "core" memory to store both the data used by programs and the instructions for running those programs. With subtle changes in its coding, a program designed to consume data could be made instead to consume programs...
Such pranks enrage the original Core War programmers. McIlroy and his friends took care that their high-tech high jinks did not put other people's programs and data at risk. "I'm amazed at how malicious some of today's players are," says McIlroy, who is now a senior member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. "What was once a friendly, harmless game has deteriorated into something that is neither friendly, harmless, nor a game...
...Tracing McIlroy's hospital visits was obviously a labor of love for Neurologist C.A. Pallis of Hammersmith Hospital and Rheumatologist A.N. Bamji of Middlesex Hospital. In their report to the British Medical Journal, they meticulously listed the 22 surnames and eight first names used in various combinations by Mcllroy in registering at different hospitals. (Mcllroy was identified by the description in clinical records of his scars and other physical characteristics.) The names of all the hospitals and the number of admittances to each were also faithfully recorded...
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