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Matemático americano, cientista em cibernética e inteligência artificial (1894–1964)
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Join the roomNorbert Wiener (26 de novembro de 1894 – 18 de março de 1964) foi um matemático americano, cientista da computação e filósofo. Ele se tornou professor de matemática no Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Um prodígio infantil, Wiener tornou-se mais tarde um pesquisador pioneiro em processos estocásticos e de ruído matemático, contribuindo com trabalhos relevantes para a engenharia eletrônica, comunicação eletrônica e sistemas de controle.
“The experience of the scientists who have worked on the atomic bomb has indicated that in any investigation of this kind the scientist ends by putting unlimited powers in the hands of the people whom he is least inclined to trust with their use.”
“What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.”
“Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.”
“Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.”
“The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.”
“Brief biography at the University of St Andrews”
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