Talk:J. C. R. Licklider

Turing for Lick

It's a major crock that Lick doesn't have a Turing Award. We just never got organized at MIT (his home institution) to press for one. But the way Turing's are given out is (or were, in that era - I don't know about now) semi-disorganized; they didn't do a wide search, etc. The only reason that Corby has one (in 1990, 7 years after Ken and Dennis, who worked in Corby's footsteps) was that I bestirred myself to organize an effort to do so; I remember getting Joel Moses (then head of the CS dept at MIT) to support it. I wonder if they do posthumous Turings (they don't, for Nobels); if they do, I'll have to send an email out to some people and see about organizing one for Lick. Jnc (talk) 14:29, 26 December 2023 (CET)

My Lick story

So, I have my own Lick story - admittedly not very interesting, but here it is. When I first started 'doing stuff' at LCS, I was eventually (this would have been about 1978) given an office - a half-room in the very corner of the 5th floor. One office away (almost in the other corner, across the narrow end of the building) was Lick's office. I am ashamed to admit that I had no idea who we was (so I never interacted with him at all, unlike Corby and Jerry). I liken this to being a young physicist getting an office next to Einstein (q.v. "Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at The Institute for Advanced Study", by Ed Regis), and them not knowing who he was. Sigh. Jnc (talk) 22:17, 7 September 2026 (UTC)