Feigenbaum on working with Herb Simon and John Backus

Edward Feigenbaum, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses his impressions of Herb Simon and the summer job with IBM where he was introduced to programming by John Backus and Bob Bemer. This clip is taken from an interview conducted with Feigenbaum by Donald Knuth for the Computer History Museum on April 4 and May 2, 2007 in Mountain View, California. Video of the full interview is available as part of Feigenbaum’s ACM profile at amturing.acm.o... .