Von Neumann and the Institute For Advanced Study
Posted: June 3, 2012 | Author: Sideb0ard | Filed under: cybernetics, hardware, history, math, military, science, video | Comments OffI’ve started reading George Dyson’s “Turing’s Cathedral”, and really enjoying it – I love reading the historical context of technological progress, feels like a lot of sociological reading, filling in another of the endless jigsaw pieces of a larger all-encompassing narrative.
Here’s George Dyson doing a lecture on the material in the book :
the biology of code
Posted: March 27, 2012 | Author: Sideb0ard | Filed under: cybernetics, future, hacking, history, information, internet, language, math, metadata, science, speculation | Comments OffFabulous piece and video chat with George Dyson over at the always reliable Edge –
A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge.
Claude Shannon and the Clams
Posted: March 16, 2012 | Author: Sideb0ard | Filed under: abstraction, communications, cybernetics, history, information, internet, language, math, people, science, video | Comments OffI finished reading James Gleick’s The Information tonite – so good!
Really, the central character is Claude Shannon, who I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t previously know much about. Had a quick search when i finished it and found this decent little 30 min documentary which gives a good overview –