Event Details
January 01, 1942
Description
First of the Macy conferences regarding control of complex systems.
Participants (4)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warren McCullough | person | 2 | View Entity |
| SHANNON | person | 31 | View Entity |
| Wiener | person | 66 | View Entity |
| von Neumann | person | 17 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This document appears to be page 12 of a manuscript or book draft detailing the history of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence. It discusses the shift from Norbert Wiener's 1st order Cybernetics to 2nd order Cybernetics championed by Heinz von Foerster and the Macy conferences. The narrator describes receiving an invitation to the 1973 AUM Conference in Big Sur, organized by John Lilly and Alan Watts, specifically to see keynote speaker Richard Feynman.
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