David S. Touretzky [SEP] educated at
David S. Touretzky
David S. Touretzky is a research professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a BA in Computer Science at Rutgers University in 1978, and earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. (1984) in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Touretzky has worked as an Internet activist in favor of freedom of speech, especially what he perceives as abuse of the legal system by government and private authorities. He is a notable critic of Scientology
David S. Touretzky, "The Mathematics of Inheritance Systems (Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence) ", Los Altos, California: Morgan Kaufmann, 1986. .
- David S. Touretzky, "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation", Redwood City, California: Benjamin Cummings, 1990. . Out of print, but electronic versions are available.
- David S. Touretzky, "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation", Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2013. .