Roger Schank, RIP

 The New York Times this week carried an obituary of Roger Schank, who taught and wrote on artificial intelligence for many years. I never read his more technical work, unless an excerpt or two, but he wrote books for the general reader also. Of those, I read and enjoyed The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind and Tell Me a Story. The first, as I recall, got a favorable review from the critic Hugh Kenner.