Reading this my eye was caught by the name Gelernter. Wait, wasn't that the guy who... no, it was his father, Herbert[1], who

> implemented, with Nathaniel Rochester, a computer language for list processing within FORTRAN ... the Fortran list processing language (FLPL)

His son David, who would have been 3yo at the time McCarthy wrote this paper, has had his own effect on computer science[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Gelernter

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gelernter