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Peter Manthos

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Entropy, Bits, and Communication

How Claude Shannon’s information theory shaped modern technology

Feb 16

Claude Shannon with ‘Theseus,’ courtesy MIT museum

Feb 16

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The Robotic Alchemist

How Lee Cronin created the chemputer

Jan 19

The Chemputer Robot

Jan 19

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The ‘Logic Theorist’ and ‘Principia Mathematica’

How the first AI Program carried out Bertrand Russell’s vision

May 30, 2024

Image representing the Logic Theorist’s capacity to automate reasoning

May 30, 2024

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From Aristotle’s logic to Boolean algebra: how George Boole and Claude Shannon created modern…

German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was among the first that attempted to replace verbal reasoning with a symbolic…

May 6, 2022

From Aristotle’s logic to Boolean algebra: how George Boole and Claude Shannon created modern…

May 6, 2022

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The saga of the ‘Analytical Engine’: How Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace invented digital…

Charles Babbage, was an English mathematician, philosopher, and mechanical engineer, born in Devonshire, in 1792. The son of Benjamin…

May 25, 2022

The saga of the ‘Analytical Engine’: How Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace invented digital…

May 25, 2022

From Edison’s Filament to the Digital Age

The story of the Transistor

Dec 12, 2024

From Edison’s Filament to the Digital Age

Dec 12, 2024

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Herman Hollerith and the U.S. Census

How the 1890 U.S. Census caused the birth of IBM

Jul 22, 2024

The Hollerith Tabulating Machine

Jul 22, 2024

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Teatime History

Haussmann’s Reformation of Paris

A vision of the future or a nightmare of the past?

Jul 12, 2024

Haussmann’s Reformation of Paris

Jul 12, 2024

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The Code of Common Sense

How Douglas Lenat’s Cyc project transformed AI

Jun 28, 2024

The Cyc Project: Common sense into code

Jun 28, 2024

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ELIZA, the first psychiatrist-chatbot

Joseph Weisenbaum’s program and the controversy it created

Jun 8, 2024

ELIZA, the first psychiatrist-chatbot

Jun 8, 2024

Peter Manthos

Peter Manthos

Peter Manthos is a Babyboomer. He lives in Athens, Greece, reads voraciously and writes Non-fiction in The Thinker’s Almanac -

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