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Professor Norbert Wiener of MIT will open a two-day conference on Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences at 4 p.m. today in Emerson D with a lecture on "The Nature of Information...
...make my living writing science-fiction . . . and characters like Wiener are lousing up the racket...
With due respect to all mental giants, I cannot help thinking after reading of Cyberneticist Wiener [TIME, Dec. 27] that we "of mediocre attainments or less" can still provide an insight to the value of the human brain which is fearfully lacking in Professor Wiener's cold analysis...
...gravely, "realized how much I ... knew . . . about life on board ship"). But wretched Rudolph was soon too far gone to devote himself for long to anything. Out of a mouselike hatred for his father's regime, he wrote a number of anonymous leading articles for the liberal Neues Wiener Tagblatt; but when a radical stood up in Parliament and denounced the House of Habsburg, Rudolph reverted to type and had the man horsewhipped. He spent hours updating his "Register of Conquests"; if the lady was wellborn, she got a silver cigarette box engraved with his signature...
Nothing to Sell. Many times throughout his book Dr. Wiener stops in a cold sweat and looks a few years ahead: "Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb," he says, "it had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil . . . The first industrial revolution . . . was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery . . . The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and routine decisions . . . The human being of mediocre...