Epstein Secrets

Bigelow's "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology" (1943); McCullouch & Pitts's "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" (1943); von Neumann's book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (with Oskar Morgenstem) 1944; Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948); Wiener's Cybe

. Church, Daniel C. Dennett, David Deutsch, Anca Dragan, George Dyson, Peter Galison, Neil Gershenfeld, Alison Gopnik, Tom Griffiths, Danny Hillis, Caroline A. Jones, David Kaiser, Seth Lloyd, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Judea Pearl, Sandy Pentland, Steven Pinker, Venki Ramakrishnan, Stuart Russell, Jaan Tallin, Max Tegm

r machine, now known as a Universal Turing Machine, an arbitrary set of computing instructions could be encoded on that same tape. In the 1940s, von Neumann developed an abstract self-reproducing machine called a cellular automaton. In this case it occupied a finite subset of an infinite two- dimensional

ntist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucrat

r machine, now known as a Universal Turing Machine, an arbitrary set of computing instructions could be encoded on that same tape. In the 1940s, von Neumann developed an abstract self-reproducing machine called a cellular automaton. In this case it occupied a finite subset of an infinite two- dimensional

ntist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucrat