Epstein Secrets

a topic absent from a typical computer-science education: the physical configuration of a 118 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016921 computation. Von Neumann and Turing posed their questions as theoretical studies, because it was beyond the technology of their day to realize them. But with the convergence of communic

ce in terms of feedback, exploring the cultural rather than engineering uptake of this idea. She begins with primary readings by Wiener, Shannon, and Turing and then pivots from the scientists and engineers to the work and ideas of artists, feminists, postmodern theorists. Her goal: to come up with a new

6 Artificial intelligence was not what artists first wanted out of cybernetics, once Norbert Wiener’s Zhe Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society came out in 1950. The range of artists who identified themselves with cybernetics in the fifties and sixties initially had little access to “thinking

a topic absent from a typical computer-science education: the physical configuration of a 118 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016338 computation. Von Neumann and Turing posed their questions as theoretical studies, because it was beyond the technology of their day to realize them. But with the convergence of communic

ce in terms of feedback, exploring the cultural rather than engineering uptake of this idea. She begins with primary readings by Wiener, Shannon, and Turing and then pivots from the scientists and engineers to the work and ideas of artists, feminists, postmodern theorists. Her goal: to come up with a new

6 Artificial intelligence was not what artists first wanted out of cybernetics, once Norbert Wiener’s Zhe Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society came out in 1950. The range of artists who identified themselves with cybernetics in the fifties and sixties initially had little access to “thinking

ere? A dim, honest, slow-multiplying human? Impossible to tell. The distinction between machine and man blurred a bit. Buried in the very premise of Turing’s test was an assumption about what machines could do, and how they might do it. “The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that t

rnessing the Power of Computer Viruses”, The Sciences Sept/Oct 199, 22 217 Eugene Spafford: Eugene Spafford, “Three Letters on Computer Security and Society,” Purdue e-Pubs 1991, 91-088 146 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018378 data - our DNA, our wedding photos, our hopeful voice mails and most essential knowledge,