Claude Shannon
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George Boole
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Norbert Wiener
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Norbert Wiener
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Warren Weaver
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Vannevar Bush
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John von Neumann
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John R. Pierce
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Kaiser
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| N/A | N/A | British forces breaking German one-time pad encryption due to pseudo-random generation. | Europe (implied) | View |
| 1988-01-01 | N/A | Received PhD in EECS | MIT | View |
| 1955-01-01 | N/A | Proposal printed containing the first usage of the phrase 'artificial intelligence' | N/A | View |
| 1949-01-01 | N/A | Warren Weaver introduces Shannon's work to a broad readership. | N/A | View |
| 1948-01-01 | N/A | Formalization of entropy for use in communication theory/information theory by Claude Shannon | N/A | View |
| 1948-01-01 | N/A | Publication of Claude Shannon's proof regarding one-time pads (delayed due to wartime secrecy). | N/A | View |
| 1948-01-01 | N/A | Shannon showed that communicating with symbols rather than continuous quantities changes behavior... | Bell Labs | View |
| 1945-01-01 | N/A | Claude Shannon proves the one-time pad is perfectly secure. | Bell Corporation | View |
| 1937-01-01 | N/A | Shannon wrote his master's thesis showing how electrical circuits could evaluate logical expressi... | MIT | View |
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This document appears to be a page (178) from an academic essay or book regarding the history and philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and its intersection with Art. It references the foundational 1955 AI proposal by McCarthy and Marvin Minsky (a known Epstein associate), discusses Google DeepMind, and analyzes artistic works by Philippe Parreno and mathematical models by John Horton Conway. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp, indicating it was collected as part of a congressional investigation, likely related to the inquiry into MIT Media Lab's funding and Minsky's ties to Epstein.
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This document is page 175 of an academic text or book discussing the history and etymology of 'cybernetics,' referencing the year 1968 as a pivot point for the intersection of art and technology. It discusses various figures in information theory and art history, including Norbert Wiener and Nam June Paik. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016978' stamp, indicating it was produced as evidence in a US House Oversight Committee investigation, likely related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein's funding of scientific research (e.g., MIT Media Lab), though Epstein is not named on this specific page.
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This document is page 116 of a larger text, stamped with 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016919', indicating it is part of a congressional investigation (likely related to Epstein's ties to scientific funding/institutions like MIT). The text itself is a historical narrative detailing the origins of digital computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It focuses on the work of Claude Shannon at MIT and Bell Labs, and John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study, specifically covering the transition from analog to digital systems, error correction thresholds, and the exponential scaling of data processing.
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This document is an essay or chapter by physicist Neil Gershenfeld titled "Scaling." Gershenfeld analyzes the history of artificial intelligence as a series of "boom-bust cycles" (mainframes, expert systems, perceptrons, deep learning), arguing that the continuity of progress—specifically in mastering scaling and the distinction between linear and exponential functions—is often overlooked. He references historical figures like Norbert Wiener and Claude Shannon to contextualize the evolution of AI.
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This document is page 110 of a text (likely a history of science book or manuscript) detailing the intellectual history of cybernetics and information theory. It focuses on Norbert Wiener's concerns about military secrecy during the Cold War/McCarthy era and his adoption of Claude Shannon's entropy-based definition of 'information.' The page bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016913' stamp, indicating it was part of a document dump for a Congressional investigation, though the text itself is purely academic/historical in nature.
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This document is page 109 of a file labeled 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016912'. It contains an academic essay titled '“INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US' by MIT professor David Kaiser. The text discusses the history of science, focusing on Norbert Wiener's cybernetics, Claude Shannon's information theory, and the implications for modern AI and 'Big Data'.
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This document is page 77 of a larger work, likely a book or collection of essays, bearing the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016880'. It features an essay titled 'Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas' by Harvard Professor Steven Pinker. The text discusses Artificial Intelligence, the computational theory of mind, and the work of Norbert Wiener regarding cybernetics and entropy. While the text does not explicitly mention Jeffrey Epstein, it is part of a House Oversight Committee production, likely related to investigations into Epstein's funding of scientific research and academia.
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This document is page 37 of a production for the House Oversight Committee (Bates 016840). It contains an essay titled 'The Third Law' by historian George Dyson. The text explores the history of computing, distinguishing between 'Old Testament' logic (Hobbes, Leibniz) and 'New Testament' machines (Turing, von Neumann), and discusses the distinctions and transitions between analog and digital computing.
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This document is page 11 of a House Oversight Committee exhibit (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016814). It contains an essay or book excerpt discussing the history of cybernetics and artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on Norbert Wiener's 1950 book 'The Human Use of Human Beings.' The text highlights Wiener's early warnings about the dangers of technological control and commercialization, contrasting his views with contemporaries like John von Neumann and John McCarthy, who favored commercialization and the development of 'artificial intelligence' over Wiener's 'cybernetics.'
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This document is page 10 of a memoir or essay (likely by literary agent John Brockman), marked with a House Oversight Bates stamp, suggesting it was evidence in a congressional investigation (likely regarding Epstein's ties to science/academia). The text details the narrator's pivotal experiences in the mid-1960s bridging art and science, including a visit to MIT to see a mainframe computer and a 1967 visit to Menlo Park to assist Stewart Brand with the 'Whole Earth Catalog.' It discusses the influence of cybernetics, Marshall McLuhan, and Norbert Wiener on the narrator's intellectual development.
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This document appears to be a page from a publication or agenda (page 7) listing various prominent academics and scientists alongside titles of essays or talks focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and human-machine interaction. The document is stamped 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016810', indicating it is part of a larger investigation, likely related to connections between these scientific circles (often associated with Edge.org or MIT Media Lab) and Jeffrey Epstein.
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This document is a biographical profile of computer scientist and inventor Danny Hillis, marked with a House Oversight Committee footer (likely related to the investigation into MIT's funding ties to Jeffrey Epstein, given Hillis's prominence at MIT and the Media Lab context). The text details his education at MIT, his founding of Thinking Machines Corporation, his tenure as a Disney Fellow, and his later ventures including Applied Minds and the Long Now Foundation. It highlights his philosophical views on artificial intelligence, parallel computing, and long-term thinking, specifically referencing his desire to create a 'thinking machine' and the 'Clock of the Long Now.'
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This document appears to be the first page of a chapter titled 'Mind Over Computer' (Chapter 1). It features a stock image of a woman playing chess against a robot, captioned 'Computer versus Human.' The page includes quotes about artificial intelligence attributed to Claude Shannon and Edgar Dijkstra (likely a misspelling of Edsger Dijkstra). The document bears a Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015693,' indicating it was produced as part of a US House Oversight Committee investigation.
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This document appears to be page xiii of a 'Preface' for a manuscript or book draft. It lists a series of philosophical and scientific 'Beliefs' regarding free will, the rational nature of the universe, the distinction between human creativity and computers, and the complexity of communication (contrasted with the work of Shannon and Nyquist). The document bears the stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015687', indicating it is part of evidence collected by the US House Oversight Committee.
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This document appears to be page 216 from a book titled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?', included in a House Oversight Committee document production (Bates stamped HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015906). The text is an educational explanation of cryptography, specifically describing the mechanics, security, and historical context (referencing Claude Shannon and Bell Corp) of the 'one-time pad' encryption method. While the document is part of an investigation file, the content itself is theoretical and instructional regarding secure communications.
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This document is page 109 of a scientific or mathematical manuscript discussing transition incidence matrices, Markov matrices, and entropy calculations. It details the mathematical convergence of matrices to a steady state and utilizes the entropy formalism of Claude Shannon to calculate metric entropy ($H_M$). The page bears a House Oversight stamp, indicating it was part of a document production for a congressional investigation, likely related to Jeffrey Epstein's scientific interests or papers recovered from his estate.
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This document is page 83 of a scientific text, likely part of a larger collection reviewed by the House Oversight Committee regarding Jeffrey Epstein (indicated by the Bates stamp). The text discusses advanced mathematical concepts relating to dynamical systems, specifically 'generating partitions,' the 'Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measure,' and 'metric entropy.' It details the historical academic contributions of several prominent mathematicians, including Kolmogorov, Shannon, and Ornstein, and lists researchers from institutions like IBM, Stanford, Hebrew University, and Warwick University.
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This document appears to be page 77 of a scientific manuscript or essay discussion information theory, specifically focusing on binary coding, probability, logarithms, and entropy. It discusses the work of Claude Shannon and George Boole. While the text is academic in nature, the 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013577' footer indicates it was seized or produced as evidence in a congressional investigation, likely related to Jeffrey Epstein's connections with the scientific community.
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This document is page 76 of a scientific text bearing a House Oversight Bates stamp. The text discusses the concept of entropy in information theory and neuroscience, referencing the work of researchers Seymore Kety, Louis Sokoloff, Harold Himwich, and Claude Shannon. It compares computer computation to brain metabolism and energy consumption.
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This document appears to be page 69 of a manuscript or essay, identified by the Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013569. The text attempts to bridge concepts of physics (thermodynamics, entropy, dynamical systems) with metaphysical and spiritual concepts (Karma, Samsara, Nirvana). It references figures such as Sri Aurobindo, Teilhard de Chardin, and Ken Wilber to discuss 'in-between entropies' and states of consciousness, concluding with a quote from John R. Pierce regarding information theory.
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This document appears to be page 67 of a larger manuscript or essay included in a House Oversight investigation file (stamped 013567). The text is a pseudo-scientific philosophical treatise in which the author (writing in the first person) discusses their erotic fascination with 'exquisitely sensitive women' and attempts to explain this sensitivity using Claude Shannon's information theory (entropy) combined with concepts from Tibetan Buddhism and Chinese Medicine (specifically 'xu' or emptiness). The writing style suggests an attempt to bridge hard science with mysticism to explain human behavior and attraction.
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This document is a digital communication log from August 21, 2018, between the email address 'e:jeeitunes@gmail.com' (associated with Jeffrey Epstein) and a redacted sender. The conversation discusses a man named 'Claude' who only took educated women, refers to a group of women who attended accent reduction classes taught by Sam Chwat, and mentions a woman protected by French intelligence. The correspondents use espionage terminology, referring to women as 'French swallows' rather than 'red sparrows' and describing the situation as an 'amazing intel op'.
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This document appears to be page 416 from the index of a book titled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?'. It lists various topics, people, and concepts ranging from 'Robinson' to 'story', including figures like Donald Rumsfeld, Bertrand Russell, and Carl Sagan, as well as technical concepts like RSA encryption and software. The document bears a Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016106', indicating it was part of a document production for a congressional oversight investigation.
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A page from a book or paper (page 337) titled 'Free Will' discussing a 'Quantum Morse Machine' and a 'Simple Free Will Theorem.' It uses the history of WWII cryptography (Claude Shannon, German one-time pads) to argue about the non-computability of the Universe and quantum mechanics. The document bears a House Oversight stamp.
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This text critiques the evolution of artificial intelligence from a theoretical simulation to a tool of capitalism and social control, contrasting these developments with artistic interpretations. It discusses the work of artist Philippe Parreno and mathematician John Horton Conway, exploring the boundaries between simulation and life through the lens of Conway's "Game of Life" and its implications for understanding complexity and consciousness.
Information Theory
Lengthy articles establishing information theory.
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