Epstein Secrets

uch as a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. In 1996, Andrew Wiles succeeded in finding a solution to this pro

ek Island of Antikythera had cogs and gears and could accurately predict the motions of the sun and planets. Many Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, Computer History Museum, CA HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015705 16 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? of these skills were lost in the Dark Ages but, once the Renaissance was underway in

e joined by Venki Ramakrishnan, Jaan Tallinn, and Andrew Blake, research director of The Alan Turing Insti

n undergraduate at MIT, he built a computer out of Tinkertoys. It has around 10,000 wooden parts, plays tic-tac-toe, and never loses; it’s now in the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. As a graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the early 1980s, Danny de

e joined by Venki Ramakrishnan, Jaan Tallinn, and Andrew Blake, research director of The Alan Turing Insti

n undergraduate at MIT, he built a computer out of Tinkertoys. It has around 10,000 wooden parts, plays tic-tac-toe, and never loses; it’s now in the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. As a graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the early 1980s, Danny de