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s. These days, the protection of creative Harold Cohen, Computer Art HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015998 Creativity

drives creativity. There are also some myths to dispel about creative people. Inventors are portrayed as eccentric and hopelessly disorganized, but Feynman kept notes of every idea he ever had. I have kept a series of notebooks, now computer based, since J left university. I still have almost all of thes

ite Numbers. Dover Publications Inc., 2003. Clegg, Brian. Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable. Robinson Publishing, 2003. Cohen, Paul J. Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis. Dover Publications Inc., 2009. Pica, Pierre, and Alain Lecomte. “Theoretical Implications of the S

ivity versus 312 program equivalence problem 250 programmer 235, 238, 263 programming geniuses 271 super-programmers 266 progressive cipher 214 proof Feynman’s proof 157 indirect 244 mathematical 156 philosophical 246 Index 415 PSPACE problem 168 Pulitzer Prize 365, 367 purpose on the planet 9 puzzle tw

nora Desert; Neurochemically sophisticated Sidney Cohen, founding director of the National Institutes of

s in it taking the shortest route possible from its initial to final position. The related 1650 Fermat’s “principle of least time” is about light. As Feynman explains in his Lectures in Physics, “...out of all possible paths that light might take from one point another, light takes the path that requires t

make them a powerful mechanism.”2'6 This optimistic gloss, which sounded an awful lot like “The Plauge was great for humanity!” if you didn’t follow Cohen's logic, triggered a furious response. Eugene Spafford, also a well-regarded computer researcher, fired back: “For someone of Dr. Cohen’s reputation

was the time that Hillis asked Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman to tip him off about any smart scientists Thinking Machines might hire. Feynman, pushing 60, volunteered himself and spent his summer vacations for the next ten years with Hillis and his team.1?! When it came time to test the fir