by John McCarthy, Jill Morrell · Transworld Publishers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552139533
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«Some Other Rainbow» is the autobiographical account by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell, published by Transworld Publishers in paperback (672 pages, in English).
Memoirs of John McCarthy's kidnapping in Beirut in 1986, when the journalist spent over five years in captivity, separated from Jill Morrell, his fiancée. The book alternates John's experience in captivity with the campaign that Jill and a group of friends undertook to free him, until their reunion in August 1991.
The cover shows the subtitle 'Their Own Story' and the 1994 edition is from Corgi Books, an imprint of Transworld Publishers.
For readers of memoirs and historical non-fiction, particularly those interested in survival testimonies, kidnappings and the Middle East conflict.
John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection.
