John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener

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• dgs_sgd · Sep 27, 2021 · Recommends

  I found "John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death" excellent, if you don't mind learning about Norbert Wiener as well :).

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• mjreacher · Jun 28, 2022 · Mentions

  …- The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir His daughter's autobiography, first part of the book talks about their relationship and given she was born in 1935 most of it covers the last parts of his life. - John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death This is the first biography by Heims; goes more into detail about their war work but I would point out though that Heims pretty clearly aims to…

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• jonjacky · Nov 15, 2019 · Mentions

  There is this dual biography from 1980: John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener : from mathematics to the technologies of life and death by Steve J Heims https://archive.org/details/johnvonneumannno00heim Here is a review by John McCarthy: http://jmc.stanford.edu/artificial-intelligence/reviews/heim...

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• MichaelMoser123 · Aug 8, 2022 · Mentions

  …accept any government funding or to work on military projects. The way Wiener's beliefs concerning nuclear weapons and the Cold War contrasted with those of von Neumann is the major theme of the book John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener.[20]" John McCarthy invented the term Artificial Intelligence, in order to avoid any association with Cybernetics - I think he didn't want any association with Norbert Wiener. I suspect that this might…

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