Replying to your original reference: http://twitter.com/#!/wendyg/status/128584398642757632

Just to add to that - I've had a message from Wendy saying that McCarthy's daughter had 'phoned her with the news, and Wendy is the ultimate source of the wikipedia edit/entry.

October 2011 is turning out to be one sad month.

And Stanford just confirmed https://twitter.com/#!/stanfordeng/status/128615022044790784

What sad news. I do hope that Standford makes a statement, just to clarify.

Sad to hear about this. I love LISP and discovered the beauty of it when I was part of Gensysm product team - large scale real time system with AI and NN.