I made the video below in 1990 for IBM Research. John Cocke had just received his presidential medal from President Bush and had been quite ill. The head of research wanted to leave a record of how highly his peers thought of John. These were some of the most famous researchers and IBMers who had worked with him.
John never wrote his own papers. Researchers were always assigned to follow him around and write down what he said. Anyone who did became famous in their own right. My husband was asked but didn’t want to give up his own research for John’s topics. Sigh.
There were so many really special minds that worked at IBM.
Computer History - John Cocke: A Retrospective by Friends - 1990
https://youtu.be/eYwd30iWVvw
John Cocke, Fran Allen, Joel Birnbaum, Lewis Branscomb, Fred Brooks, Brad Dunham, Red Dunwell, Ed Fredkin, Ralph Gomory, Ian Gunn, Andy Heller, Harwood Kolsky, Abe Peled, Jack Schwartz and Ed Sussenguth
Thank you, Mairdie.
Interesting. Thanks.