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The ‘Logic Theorist’ and ‘Principia Mathematica’

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

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The ‘Fourth Astronaut’: The story of the Apollo Guidance Computer

On April 12, 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 capsule, executed one orbit around the Earth in 108 minutes, in…

4 min readMay 24, 2024

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The ‘Fourth Astronaut’: The story of the Apollo Guidance Computer

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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…

3 min readMay 6, 2022

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

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The ‘Perceptron’ and the rivalry between Frank Rosenblatt and Marvin Minsky

On July 8, 1958, the New York Times published an article titled “NEW NAVY DEVICE LEARNS BY DOING: Psychologist Shows Embryo of Computer…

3 min readDec 15, 2022

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The ‘Perceptron’ and the rivalry between Frank Rosenblatt and Marvin Minsky

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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…

5 min readMay 25, 2022

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

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World3: The M.I.T. program that predicted the end of the world !

In 1965, Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei (1908–1984) gave a lecture about the radical scientific and technological changes happening…

4 min readFeb 2, 2024

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World3: The M.I.T. program that predicted the end of the world !

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Out of Control: the New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World according to…

In 1992, Kevin Kelly’s book ‘Out of Control: the New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World’ attempted to throw light…

4 min readJan 11, 2024

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Out of Control: the New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World according to…

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W. Ross Ashby and the Homeostat, the first ‘Thinking Machine’

The Homeostat consisted of four interconnected Royal Air Force bomb control units with inputs, feedback, and magnetically driven…

3 min readDec 19, 2023

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W. Ross Ashby and the Homeostat, the first ‘Thinking Machine’

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Bill Phillips and the MONIAC hydraulic computer

Sometime in November 1949, at a London School of Economics seminar room, Bill Phillips, an Australian-born economics student nervously took…

4 min readDec 15, 2023

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Bill Phillips and the MONIAC hydraulic computer

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Doug Engelbart and the ‘Mother of All Demos’

San Fransisco is famous for the Summer of Love that happened back in 1967, when young people from all over America converged in the…

3 min readDec 9, 2023

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Doug Engelbart and the ‘Mother of All Demos’

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Peter Manthos

Peter Manthos

Peter Manthos is a Babyboomer. He lives in Athens with his wife, his daughter and their dog Dali. He studied Economics, travels a lot and he reads voraciously.

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