Sometimes
I learn interesting aspects of the history of theory from this
weblog. On an
old post on conference covers, Pekka
Orponen left a comment saying that
Alvy Ray Smith originally designed
the FOCS cover back in 1973, when the conference was SWAT: Switching
and Automata Theory. Here is
Smith's story about the
cover where he states the hands are his.
Smith had three papers in SWAT before moving into computer graphics
and co-founding companies such as Pixar. So next time you are looking up a
FOCS paper take a look at the hands of a one-time theorist who made a
difference.
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