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… his chaffeur? -did you meet Ace Greenberg through his children at Dalton? -Did he say that given your reputation for intelligence and Jewish heritage, you should be working at Bear Stearns? Was this in the late 70s? -Did you soon move to a penthouse at 66th St. and 2nd Avenue...

…d by the system far exceeds the complexity of the digital code with which it is built. He believes that true artificial intelligence—with analog control systems emerging from a digital substrate the way digital computers emerged out of analog components in the aftermath of World...

…y. making us more creative. His books pose a series of practical problems, each needing progressively greater creative intelligence. The particular problem I was trying to solve was to balance a glass of water on knives suspended from four milk bottles. It took me after 2 hours....

…recent advances in deep learning and neuromorphic computation are very good at reproducing a particular aspect of human intelligence focused on the operation of the brain’s cortex, where patterns are processed and recognized. These advances have enabled a computer to beat the wor...

… Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine CONTENTS PROLOGUE On the Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014 PART ONE The Intelligence Crisis The Great Divide The Crime Scene Investigation PART TWO Snowden’s Arc Tinker Secret Agent Contractor Thief Crossing the Rubicon Hackta...

…y immediate threat from Iraq. But Saddam had proven he could launch missiles into the heart of Israel. We knew from our intelligence reports that, in addition to his unabated desire to acquire nuclear arms, he retained facilities to produce chemical weapons. He was trying to acqu...

…tions and motivations of radical fundamentalists who pass in and out of those always accessible cities. By sharing that intelligence, the Saudis greatly enhance America’s security. Like it or not, the military option most unpopular with America’s voters and politicians may be it...

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…thinking or just random chance is unknown, but it’s an interesting data point in our quest to understand creativity and intelligence. Looking through a microscope, the wrinkly grey matter is composed of 30 trillion neurons; small whitish cells sprouting filaments that wrap aroun...

… years in uniform — a career which, after Saveret Matkal, led me up the military ladder until I was head of operations, intelligence, and eventually of the entire army as Chief of Staff. By the time I left the military, I was the single most decorated soldier in our country’s his...

…t reaching beyond their own national security staff, without probing deeply into the Departments of State, Defense, the intelligence community, and elsewhere where additional expertise resides. They will outsmart themselves if that is the approach they choose. Blackberry diplomac...

…been sent. 1. What's been stimulating as a source of good questions for the "distributions in nature" issue? 7. "Signal intelligence in biol. systems" seems to cover all of neurophysiology: Jonathan Victor, whom you met a few years ago in your office, is powerfully thoughtful on...

…k Tied to Times Reporter,” New York Times, January 26, 2015. The notable exception to policy of seeking imprisonment of intelligence workers found guilty of passing classified information to journalist is the extraordinary case of ex-CIA director General David Petraeus. General P...

… surveillance. As is clear from Snowden’s Internet postings, he, like Ron Paul, had doubts about the competence of the intelligence agencies of the U.S. government. Snowden’s own disillusionment about the govern- © ment might have begun with his rejection and perceived mistreat...