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e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—

and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept

, prompting him to ask, “Do we need a new set of guiding metaphors?” 108 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016911 “INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Soc

e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—

and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept

ines to seem as smart as a mosquito, forever descending the cosmic gradients to an ultimate goal, whatever that may be. 107 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016327 David Kaiser is a physicist atypically interested in the intersection of his science with politics and culture, about which he has written widely. In the first m

thlehem, CT (90 miles from NYC; 150 miles from Cambridge) on Friday-Saturday September 10th & 11th. If you can make it's important to first re-read Wiener's book and have an idea for your topic that we can put on the table for discussion. Other than the abstract, no papers or formal presentations. I wi

ed. To: Rodney Brooks, George Church, Daniel Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Peter Galison, Neil Gershenfeld, Virginia Heffeman, W. Daniel Hillis, Joi Ito, David Kaiser, Azra Raza, Jaan Tallin, Max Tegmark, Craig Venter, Frank Wilczek Dear xxxx With the end of summer, I am getting to work on the proposed volume in

thlehem, CT (90 miles from NYC; 150 miles from Cambridge) on Friday-Saturday September 10th & 11th. If you can make it's important to first re-read Wiener's book and have an idea for your topic that we can put on the table for discussion. Other than the abstract, no papers or formal presentations. I wi

ed. To: Rodney Brooks, George Church, Daniel Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Peter Galison, Neil Gershenfeld, Virginia Heffeman, W. Daniel Hillis, Joi Ito, David Kaiser, Azra Raza, Jaan Tallin, Max Tegmark, Craig Venter, Frank Wilczek Dear xxxx With the end of summer, I am getting to work on the proposed volume in

d science philanthropist, who, in the abstract for his essay, writes: "An interesting cultural evolution is happening in the AI research community. Wiener's original warnings were buried for 50+ years, only to re-emerge within a small community of 'dissidents,' and are now slowly—and very encouragingl

n; the precision cosmologist Max Tegmark; the robotocists Rodney Brooks and Chris Anderson, the science historians Peter Galison, George Dyson, and David Kaiser; the technologist Jaan Tallin; the cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, the writers Kevin Kelly and Pamela McCorduck. As Daniel C. Dennett notes: "re

nd =cience philanthropist, who, in the abstract for his essay, =rites: "An interesting cultural evolution is happening =n the Al research community. Wiener's original warnings were buried for 50+ =ears, only to re-emerge within a small community of 'dissidents,' and are now =lowly—and very encouragingly

n; the precision cosmologist Max =egmark; the robotocists Rodney Brooks and Chris Anderson, the science =istorians Peter Galison, George Dyson, and David Kaiser; the technologist Jaan Tallin; =he cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, the writers Kevin Kelly and Pamela =cCorduck. As Daniel C. Dennett notes: "re

thlehem, CT (90 miles from NYC: 150 miles from Cambridge) on Friday-Saturday September 10th & 11th. If you can make it's important to first re-read Wiener's book and have an idea for your topic that we can put on the table for discussion. Other than the abstract, no papers or formal presentations. I wi

ley To: Rodney Brooks, George Church, Daniel Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Peter Galison, Neil Gershenfeld, Virginia Heffeman, W. Daniel Hillis, Joi Ito, David Kaiser, Azra Raza, Jaan Tallin, Max Tegmark, Craig Venter, Frank Wilczek Dear xxxx With the end of summer, I am getting to work on the proposed volume in

thlehem, CT (90 miles from NYC; 150 miles from Cambridge) on Friday-Saturday September 10th & 11th. If you can make it's important to first re-read Wiener's book and have an idea for your topic that we can put on the table for discussion. Other than the abstract, no papers or formal presentations. I wi

ed. To: Rodney Brooks, George Church, Daniel Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Peter Galison, Neil Gershenfeld, Virginia Heffeman, W. Daniel Hillis, Joi Ito, David Kaiser, Azra Raza, Jaan Tallin, Max Tegmark, Craig Venter, Frank Wilczek Dear xxxx With the end of summer, I am getting to work on the proposed volume in

ed up on it and it was big news. This resulted in an invitation to me to join Solomon and Rosenblith in co-organizing a meeting in Cambridge between Wiener's closest colleagues at Harvard-MIT and the NY avant-garde artists interested in and inspired by his work. The occasion marked the first anniversar

ng presentations, conversations, and contributors to the book include: George Church, George Dyson, Peter Galison, Neil Gershenfeld, Caroline Jones, David Kaiser, Seth Lloyd, Sandy Pentland, Steven Pinker, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stephen Wolfram. 7:45 - 10:00pm - Dinner for 60 at Benedetto (Private Dining Room)

at our door.” In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Broc

rg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist; and The Global Work of Art. David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is