Carl E. Hewitt

Fanya- I have been thinking of you and am sad to learn of Carl´s passing. I hope you have been receiving lots of support from community. I´d love to catch up with you. -Robert Pierson from the SL days.

Is this the Carl Hewitt who went to high school in El Paso? If so, his family and mine were friendly and I was his math tutor when he was out of school with an illness. I admired his intelligence and calmness (and enthusiasm for math). We were friendly, but lost contact after graduation. My sympathy on his loss.

Loved your work, an inspiration.

Carl, ever irascible, Socratic, inspirational, provocative, gone too soon. Let us finish his work.

Learned of this just yesterday. I will be forever grateful to Carl for his support and supervision of my dissertation. A few years ago, a colleague who met Carl for the first time at some conference ended his brief account of that meeting by saying "Smart cookie." Yes, and a nice guy.

Carl was my Master's thesis advisor at the MIT AI Lab, where I did basic research into the architecture of actor systems. While Carl and I had our differences about theoretical and practical matters, he and I always had thought-provoking and frequently mind-expanding conversations, and I owe him huge credit for setting me on the rest of my journey, as much as anyone. We called him "The Duck Man" for one of his favorite sayings, "If it quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, then...

We were born the same year, as I see - 1944. Was a totally different world back then. May he Rest In Peace.