Epstein Secrets

o capture the excitement felt by participants, as mathematics joined theoretical biology (Arturo Rosenblueth) and information theory (Claude Shannon, Walter Pitts, Warren McCulloch) to produce a barrage of interdisciplinary research and publications viewed as changing not just the way science was done but the w

r, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyon

ning, waiting in the lounge at JFK, I had had the bright idea to write my friend and longtime collaborator, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyone in Milan I should know. Once I was settled at the hotel, the phone began ringing and a procession

and public space; and fashion designer Miuccia Prada, who “requests your presence for tea this afternoon at Prada headquarters.” And thus, thanks to HUO, did the jet-lagged “great American visionary thinker” stumble and mumble his way through his first day in Milan, November 2011. HUO is sui generis:

o capture the excitement felt by participants, as mathematics joined theoretical biology (Arturo Rosenblueth) and information theory (Claude Shannon, Walter Pitts, Warren McCulloch) to produce a barrage of interdisciplinary research and publications viewed as changing not just the way science was done but the w

r, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyon

ning, waiting in the lounge at JFK, I had had the bright idea to write my friend and longtime collaborator, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyone in Milan I should know. Once I was settled at the hotel, the phone began ringing and a procession

and public space; and fashion designer Miuccia Prada, who “requests your presence for tea this afternoon at Prada headquarters.” And thus, thanks to HUO, did the jet-lagged “great American visionary thinker” stumble and mumble his way through his first day in Milan, November 2011. HUO is sui generis:

who of cutting edge scientific intellectuals: H. Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, Julian H. Bigelow, Warren McCulloch, Margaret Mead, F.S.C. Northrop, Walter Pitts, Arturo Rosenthbleuth, John Von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Heinz Von Foerster, W. Grey Walter, Norbert Wiener, and J.Z. Young. McCulloch, as Chairman

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 Tegmark, Frank Wilczek, and Stephen Wolfram. Ste

Caroline A. Jones, David Kaiser, Seth Lloyd, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Judea Pearl, Sandy Pentland, Steven Pinker, Ven

plied his knowledge of control and feedback loops to neuro-muscular feedback in living systems, and was responsible for bringing Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts to MIT, where they did their pioneering work on artificial neural networks. Wiener’s central insight was that the world should be understood in term

tum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, L

and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. Judea

plied his knowledge of control and feedback loops to neuro-muscular feedback in living systems, and was responsible for bringing Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts to MIT, where they did their pioneering work on artificial neural networks. Wiener’s central insight was that the world should be understood in term

tum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, L

and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. Judea