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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by taneq on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:04PM (#14985528)
> I met Don a handful of times, and he was extremely kind and generous to me. He worked at Bletchley Park and died aged 91 having hit a bridge at 120mph going the wrong way up the M11 at 2am sitting next to his wife who had defected to Russia thirty years before. Don was driving, at the time he had been blind for six months.

Wow, what a rollercoaster of a paragraph! Thanks for the story. :)

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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by icc97 on Friday August 11, 2017 @07:50AM (#14988668)
That's eerily similar to how John Nash died [0]

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/john-f-nash-jr-dies-...

> ... died May 23 in a two-car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86. His wife, Alicia, who was 82, also died.

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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by yvhhjbb on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:43PM (#14985737)
Clearly that's his way of saying something dodgy happened. Note the mention of Russia.
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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by nl on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:45AM (#14986872)
No, I think the poster is mis-remembering things which were based on facts.

Donald Michie did work (with Turing!) at Bletchley Park, and he did die in a motor vehicle accident. He was 83 when he died (not 91)[1]. His ex-wife[2] (they had remained friends) was in the car with him and also died. She had never defected to Russia, but she was (or had been) a member of the communist party[2].

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1556846/Professor...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McLaren

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