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 :