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The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World With Logic

This 2015 Sidney Award recipient describes the partnership between Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch. Their collaboration produced amazing intellectual feats, the first of which was coming up with a working model for how the brain works and laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence.

Amanda Gefter, Nautilus, 2015
URL: https://getab.li/103n
Language: English

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