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My good friend and inspiration of the last 20 years since 2003 in everything I did computer science-related, was, and forever will be Carl Hewitt, died a year ago, on December 7th 2022.

Carl is most known for his advocacy for the Actor Model, work on Citadels (compute, inference, and storage at "edge" to enable AR industry with low latency and high bandwidth).

I met Carl in Mountain View, at Google building where the Object Capabilities group meets in person and online for many years now every Friday AM, at 10 AM, be precise. The group is thus called FriAM.

I was a huge fan of the Actor Model since 2003, but in 2008 I learned from Grigory Petrov that Carl Hewitt was the main popularizer and core computer scientist behind it.

Actor Model today is everywhere, from Erlang and Scala's Akka to best practices in programming. We wrote the coolest actors with Grisha, queueing messages over IOCP and writing metaprogramming template delegates.

But what most important was the William James' theory of initiation over handshakes with your professor. Direct quantum entanglement with the deepest minds in human history. Carl Hewitt was my direct connection with Isaac Newton (details in comments).

First time I met Carl at a Starbucks near Googleplex in Mountain View in 2019. I will never forget that moment. ☕️😍

You are loved ❤️ and remembered forever. 🙏Your proper concept insulation, reactive modeling simplicity, and perfect Object Capabilities will live forever and will change our lives.

Incompleteness Robustness is the obvious violation of Gödel's Incompleteness that allows us to build large complex and scalable systems, that Carl pioneered recently. His work continued until his last breath.

R.I.P. Carl Hewitt, 1944-2022