Kenneth Christopher McKinstry was a researcher in artificial intelligence. He led the development of the MISTIC project which was launched in May 1996. He founded the Mindpixel project in July 2000, and closed it in December 2005. Mckinstry's AI work and similar early death dovetailed with another contemporary AI researcher, Push Singh and his MIT Open Mind Common Sense Project., McKinstry was a Canadian citizen born in Winnipeg, he resided several years in Chile. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Chris McKinstry. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McKinstry
His blog is filled with these ideas http://mindpixel.com/chris/, and he even wrote a book chapter about it http://www.mindpixel.com/PDF/mindasspace.pdf. www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/6/11/224459/073
Chris McKinstry is a Canadian who operates the world's largest telescope, the VLT, for the European Southern Observatory at Cerro Paranal, Chile. www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000824.html
