Tag: September 2015

The Greely Expedition of 1881 is a harrowing tale of starvation and the death of all but six of the…  Read More

Wiener was far ahead of his time in recognizing that our habits of technology-fueled consumption pose significant threats to health and the environment. He predicted that within the foreseeable future we would be facing growing coal and gas shortages, growing scarcity of water with which to supply our cities, growing rates of infection due to increased air travel and antibiotic resistance, growing problems related to processed and synthetic foods, growing risks of nuclear power accidents, and growing risks of nuclear war.

The arc of Norbert Wiener’s fascinating life became clear to us one day in the M.I.T. Institute Archives. In one…  Read More

Governments and corporations gather, store, and analyze the tremendous amount of data we chuff out as we move through our…  Read More

The postwar period was one of intense interdisciplinary ferment, nowhere more so than at the famous Macy conferences on circular…  Read More

My childhood memories of Norbert Wiener are of a strange looking person who came repeatedly from his New Hampshire home…  Read More

In this issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine we acknowledge one of the quintessential multi-disciplinarians of our time, Dr….  Read More

In December 17, 2014, T&S Editor-in-Chief Katina Michael interviewed Archbishop of Ottawa (Ret.) Lazar Puhalo, of the Orthodox Church in…  Read More

Mary Catherine Bateson in an interview from the 2014 Norbert Wiener Conference in Boston.   In the early part of…  Read More

“So will computers be smarter than humans? It depends on what you consider to be a computer and what you…  Read More

Te use of unmanned aircraft also known as drones is increasing in U.S. national airspace and the numbers will rise…  Read More

Historically, the evolution of research in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) has always been related, although with…  Read More

“Resistance is futile” is a catchphrase that has become synonymous with the adoption of new technologies [1]. The idea was…  Read More

Computers tell us what to do, every day, all the time. Is this a problem? I may get irritated when…  Read More

A secure crib and a baby monitor are on the “must-have” safety checklist for many new parents. But when you…  Read More

The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game. By Andrew Hodges. Updated Edition. Princeton Univ. Press, 2014. Reviewed by…  Read More