Michael S Hart (1947‒2011) died on Sept 6. Cause of death is not mentioned.
Here's the news sources:
- Obituary for Michael Stern Hart (2011-09-07) By Gregory B Newby. @ Source www.gutenberg.org
- Michael Stern Hart, 1947-2011 (2011-09-07) By Maitri Erwin. @ Source vatul.net
- Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg Founder (gutenberg.org) (2011-09-07) By News.Ycombinator.Com. @ Source news.ycombinator.com
I benefited from Project Gutenberg. Specifically, i used it to get the original text for the following 3 annotated work:
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len sassaman also died, recently due to suicide, he was a cryptographer
ReplyDeletethanks, interesting.
ReplyDeletegot any info on how Michael S Hart died?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman
ReplyDeleteSorry, looked everywhere and couldn't find a clue, but I did read this on his wiki page:
ReplyDelete"He was also a member of the RepRap Project, which aims at creating a self-replicating machine."
Just want to say that reprap is a load of crap, a disgrace of a project.
I'll keep looking, maybe i'll find something through his correspondances with other people ..