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Power, Fortune and Survival in the Age of Networks
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018232.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…rmation in 1949 as wild, uncertain, and pulsing with the instability of an entropic system. Yang. The machine architect Norbert Weiner, writing at nearly the same moment in 1948, saw the digital age differently – as an expression of stability and structure. Yin. 102 His vision fo...

that comes afterwards, as the crops absorb water and grow. The idea of a balance of
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018308.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…rmation in 1949 as wild, uncertain, and pulsing with the instability of an entropic system. Yang. The machine architect Norbert Weiner, writing at nearly the same moment in 1948, saw the digital age differently - as an expression of stability and structure. Yin.1° His vision for...

George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016257.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…s and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The New Testament prophets included Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, and Norbert Wiener. They delivered the machines. Alan Turing wondered what it would take for machines to become intelligent. John von Neumann wondered what it woul...

learning system can be trained to follow strategies that produce those outcomes. Wiener
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016313.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…of human cognition is intimately intertwined with the history of artificial intelligence itself. Only a few years after Norbert Wiener published Ze Human Use of Human Beings, Logic Theorist, the first computational model of human cognition and also the first artificial-intelligen...

Tom Griffiths is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016312.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ships, flying cars, or humanoid robots. But one thing doesn’t vary: the presence of human beings. That’s certainly what Norbert Wiener imagined when he wrote about the potential of machines to improve human society by interacting with humans and helping to mediate their interacti...

learning system can be trained to follow strategies that produce those outcomes. Wiener
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016896.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…of human cognition is intimately intertwined with the history of artificial intelligence itself. Only a few years after Norbert Wiener published Ze Human Use of Human Beings, Logic Theorist, the first computational model of human cognition and also the first artificial-intelligen...

Alex “Sandy” Pentland, an exponent of what he has termed “social physics,” is
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016937.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…. Big Data brings us to interesting times.” At our group meeting in Washington, Connecticut, he confessed that reading Norbert Wiener on the concept of feedback “felt like reading my own thoughts.” “After Wiener, people discovered or focused on the fact that there are genuinely...

Seth Lloyd is a theoretical physicist at MIT, Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016238.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…artment of Mechanical Engineering, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener’s 1950 popularization of his highly influential book Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), investigates th...

Hans Ulrich Obrist
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016364.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ce and art had already been noted by the late Heinz von Foerster, one of the architects of cybernetics, who worked with Norbert Wiener from the mid-1940s and in the 1960s founded the field of second-order cybernetics, in which the observer is understood as part of the system itse...

I met Seth Lloyd in the late 1980s, when new ways of thinking were everywhere: the
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016820.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…lifetimes to solve on classical computers. In the essay that follows, he traces the history of information theory from Norbert Wiener ’s prophetic insights to the predictions of a technological “singularity” that some would have us believe will supplant the human species. His ta...

Seth Lloyd is a theoretical physicist at MIT, Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016821.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…artment of Mechanical Engineering, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener’s 1950 popularization of his highly influential book Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), investigates th...

George M. Church is Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016969.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…rd-MIT; and co-author (with Ed Regis) of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. In 1950, Norbert Wiener’s Zhe Human Use of Human Beings was at the cutting edge of vision and speculation in proclaiming that the machine like the djinnee, which can le...

superintelligences is likely to be competitive. Humans might be seen as minor
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016344.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…nd communication engineering. It is this split which separates the age just past from that in which we are now living. —Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Cybernetics is the study of the how the weak can control the strong. Co...

I met Seth Lloyd in the late 1980s, when new ways of thinking were everywhere: the
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016237.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…lifetimes to solve on classical computers. In the essay that follows, he traces the history of information theory from Norbert Wiener ’s prophetic insights to the predictions of a technological “singularity” that some would have us believe will supplant the human species. His ta...

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document 50434423120001020 BOLLMANN NORBERT L 357 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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