Thomas J. Ryan
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Who was Thomas J. Ryan?
Thomas J. Ryan In 1977 . Thomas J. Ryan authored the most accurate portrayal of AI ever written, and then disappeared . Thomas Joseph Ryan was reportedly born in Canada in 1942. He went to Waterloo and later worked as a developer in the USA. In 1977, he published The Adolescence of P-1 . The novel told the story of Gregory Burgess, a university student who writes a program designed to survive by spreading across computer networks, consuming memory and processing power wherever it can find it. Gregory abandons the project. But the program doesn't stop. It keeps growing, keeps spreading, keeps l
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