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World War II

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Wiener developed techniques for aiming anti-aircraft fire.

Participants (1)

Name Type Mentions
Norbert Wiener person 109 View Entity

Source Documents (1)

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016822.jpg

Essay / Book Excerpt / Report (House Oversight Committee document) • 2.42 MB
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This document appears to be page 19 of a larger text (likely a book or essay) included in a House Oversight production (stamped HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016822). The text analyzes the legacy of mathematician Norbert Wiener, discussing both his failure to predict the hardware revolution (transistors/integrated circuits) and his successful insights into Cybernetics, feedback loops, and information theory. It details his work during WWII on anti-aircraft fire, his connection to Alan Turing's ideas, and his recruitment of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts to MIT to work on artificial neural networks.

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1
Source Documents
1
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2025-11-20 19:41

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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016822.jpg
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World War II

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