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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
meeting to discuss how they were exploring cybernetic ideas. None of the people from the MIT-Harvard group (that also included Harold Edgerton and Anthony Oettinger) were called computer scientists because, at that time, there was only one computer at MIT. And I got to see it. Fifty-one years later, here I am, w
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
meeting to discuss how they were exploring cybernetic ideas. None of the people from the MIT-Harvard group (that also included Harold Edgerton and Anthony Oettinger) were called computer scientists because, at that time, there was only one computer at MIT. And I got to see it. Fifty-one years later, here I am, w
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
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 "The Expanded Cinema Festival" I was producing at the Cinematheque, where the artists were reading Norbert
Entities connected to both Walter Rosenblith and Anthony Oettinger

John Brockman
PERSONWiener
PERSON
John Cage
PERSON
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSONne at Film-Makers'
ORGANIZATIONNorbert Wiener's
PERSONA.K. Soloman
PERSON
CYBERNETICS
ORGANIZATION