Epstein Secrets

his since 1965, when the composer John Cage reached across the table at dinner and handed me CYBERNETICS, saying "this is for you". I never did meet Wiener who had recently died, but also in 1965 his colleagues A.K. Soloman and Walter Rosenblith called ne at Film-Makers' Cinematheque to ask if I would

nd handed me CYBERNETICS, saying "this is for you". I never did meet Wiener who had recently died, but also in 1965 his colleagues A.K. Soloman and Walter Rosenblith called ne at Film-Makers' Cinematheque to ask if I would bring some NY artists I was working with at the Expanded Cinema Festival to a meeting to di

his since 1965, when the composer John Cage reached across the table at dinner and handed me CYBERNETICS, saying "this is for you". I never did meet Wiener who had recently died, but also in 1965 his colleagues A.K. Soloman and Walter Rosenblith called ne at Film-Makers' Cinematheque to ask if I would b

nd handed me CYBERNETICS, saying "this is for you". I never did meet Wiener who had recently died, but also in 1965 his colleagues A.K. Soloman and Walter Rosenblith called ne at Film-Makers' Cinematheque to ask if I would bring some NY artists I was working with at the Expanded Cinema Festival to a meeting to di

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

of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in NYC, the phone rang, and I was introduced to A.K. Solomon, Chairman of the Biophysics Department at Harvard and Walter Rosenblith, sensory communications researcher at MIT. Along with Harold "Doc" Edgerton at MIT and Anthony Oettinger of Harvard, they had been reading about "T

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

rk. Solomon invited me to bring some of the artists up to Cambridge to meet with him and a group that included MIT sensory- communications researcher Walter Rosenblith, Harvard applied mathematician Anthony Oettinger, and MIT engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton, inventor of the strobe light. Like many other “art meets s

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

rk. Solomon invited me to bring some of the artists up to Cambridge to meet with him and a group that included MIT sensory- communications researcher Walter Rosenblith, Harvard applied mathematician Anthony Oettinger, and MIT engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton, inventor of the strobe light. Like many other “art meets s