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Is Fernando Pereira still alive? (Was: Who was Fernando Pereira?)

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I find his name on this arvix paper:

Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08295

He features as an Executive Sponsor.

Mild Shock schrieb:
> When I look at the file it shows me:
> 
> Some of the benchmarks are inspired on a benchmark suite developed at
> ICOT for their SIM project, and other benchmark choices were
> influenced by discussions with ICOT researchers on the relative
> performance of SIM-I vs.  Prolog-20.
> 
> -- Fernando Pereira
> 
> But the file name has probably a typo:
> 
> samples/peirera.pl
> 
> Pay respect to the ancestors, and write their names correctly.
> 
> Its obviously nonsense, because the original name was:
> 
> These benchmarks are designed to identify
> pereira.tar Fernando Pereira's benchmarks (26-DEC-86)
> pereira.txt
> 
> https://github.com/ashok-khanna/cmu-ai-repository/blob/main/lang/prolog/code/bench/0.html 
> 
> 
> These tests are a nice piece of history and
> require some research to get the names right.

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