George Dyson on Turing, von Neumann, Ulam, and Computers

Greetings, all --

You may find this of interest:

TURING'S CATHEDRAL  [10.24.05]
A visit to Google on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of John von
Neumann's proposal for a digital computer

by George Dyson

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dyson05/dyson05_index.html

- Claiborne Booker -

[Roger Critchlow-2]

Claiborne --

That was a very satisfying read.  All the answers waiting for the
right question.  Faster computers if the problem is getting the
answer, or more programmers if the problem is asking the question.
Exact operations at exact times on exact locations in space vs do THIS
with THAT whenever the opportunity arises.

-- rec --

On 10/28/05, qef at aol.com <qef at aol.com> wrote:

> Greetings, all --
>
> You may find this of interest:
>
> TURING'S CATHEDRAL  [10.24.05]
> A visit to Google on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of John von
> Neumann's proposal for a digital computer
>
> by George Dyson
>
> http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dyson05/dyson05_index.html
>
> - Claiborne Booker -
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe
> Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, etc. at http://www.friam.org
>

[Owen Densmore]

What a read!  I keep up with The Edge but somehow missed this.  Thanks!

BTW: Brockman's books, compilations of similar essays by thoughtful  
folks, are quite good.  I'm reading The New Humanist now and enjoying  
it.  Enjoyed The Third Culture too.

     -- Owen

Owen Densmore
http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org


On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

> Claiborne --
>
> That was a very satisfying read.  All the answers waiting for the
> right question.  Faster computers if the problem is getting the
> answer, or more programmers if the problem is asking the question.
> Exact operations at exact times on exact locations in space vs do THIS
> with THAT whenever the opportunity arises.
>
> -- rec --
>
> On 10/28/05, qef at aol.com <qef at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings, all --
>>
>> You may find this of interest:
>>
>> TURING'S CATHEDRAL  [10.24.05]
>> A visit to Google on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of John von
>> Neumann's proposal for a digital computer
>>
>> by George Dyson
>>
>> http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dyson05/dyson05_index.html
>>
>> - Claiborne Booker -
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe
>> Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, etc. at http://
>> www.friam.org
>>
>>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe
> Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, etc. at http://
> www.friam.org
>