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#85 – Stanisław Ulam: Von Neumann – The Interaction of Mathematics and Computing
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Ulam) (13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish and American mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated
#83 – Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky: Jane Street Singularity Debate
Robin Hanson: The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life -- https://amzn.to/40FehaZ The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth -- https://amzn.to/40q5lVx The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate -- https://amz
#82 – William Leonard Pickard, George Church, Glenn Cohen, Ruth L. Okedij, Tina Liu, and Alex Zhavoronkov: Petrie-Flom Center Open House – Health Law, Biotechnology, and the Future (09/19/2024)
(00:00) Introduction (02:27) Petrie-Flom Center Open House – Health Law, Biotechnology, and the Future (51:55) Q&A --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support
#81 – Daniel Greenberg: Schools of the Future
Daniel A. Greenberg (28 September 1934 – 2 December 2021), was one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization, and was described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Pet
#80 – James T. Farrell: Radio France for North America Interview
James Thomas Farrell (February 27, 1904 – August 22, 1979) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. He is most remembered for the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and a television series in 1979. James
#79 – Marvin Minsky: MIT Infinite History Project Interview
Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory
#78 – Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superflui
#77 – Jaak Panksepp: Notre Dame Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience
Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian-American neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He was the Baily E
#76 – Peter Higgs: The Annual Higgs Lecture 2012, Kings College London – Putting Maxwell in his Place
Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. In the 1960s, Higgs proposed that br
#75 – Lawrence Lessig: 2002 OSCON Speech – Free Culture
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. (The Roy Furman chair is in honor of this extraordinary alumnus.) Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, where he was the Berkman Professor of Law
#74 – Paul Dirac: Four Lectures at Christchurch, New Zealand, 1975 – Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Electrodynamics, Magnetic Monopoles, and Does 'G' Vary? (Large Numbers Hypothesis)
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is credited with laying the f
#73 – John Hopfield: Artificial Neural Networks and Speech Processing (1988)
John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is now more commonly known as the Hopfield network. Hopfield was born in 1933 to Polish phys
#72 – Arthur Conan Doyle: Brief Interview on the Origins of the “Monstrous Growth” Sherlock Holmes and the Importance of Psychic Matters (1929)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and D
#71 – Noam Chomsky: Foundations of World Order: the UN, World Bank, IMF & Declaration of Human Rights 1999
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a
#70 – Peter Thiel: Scruton Lectures 2023 – The Diversity Myth
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Fac
#69 – Bertrand Russell & Frederick Copleston: The Famous Debate Over the Existence of God (1948)
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, a
#68 – Michael Polanyi: Full History and Hope Lecture Series – The Destruction of Reality, The Realm of the Unspoken, The Vindication of Realities, and A Society of Explorers
Michael Polanyi (11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism is a false account of knowing. His
#67 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow
Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi (29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow," a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was the Dis
#66 – Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian–American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the on
#65 – Margaret Mead & James Baldwin: A Rap On Race Conversation (1971)
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard Col
#64 – Karl Friston: Stony Brook Provost's Lecture 2019 – I Am Therefore I Think
Karl John Friston (born 12 July 1959) is a British neuroscientist and theoretician at University College London. He is an authority on brain imaging and theoretical neuroscience, especially the use of physics-inspired statistical methods to
#63 – Melvin Calvin: A Brief Oral Autobiography of the Life and Work of Melvin Calvin
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997) was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of
#62 – René Girard: Mimetic Desire and the Mythological Implications of Christianity
René Noël Théophile Girard (25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the author of
#61 – Arthur C. Clarke: Three Short Stories – Transit of Earth, The Nine Billion Names of God, and The Star: Narration By Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was an English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Od
#60 – Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fello
#59 – Anthony Giddens: Globalization and Communication
Anthony Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is the author
#58 – Gilbert Ling: On the Back of a Tiger Interview
Gilbert Ning Ling (December 26, 1919 – November 10, 2019) was a Chinese-born American cell physiologist, biochemist and scientific investigator. In 1944, Ling won the biology slot of the sixth Boxer Indemnity Scholarship, a nationwide compe
#57 – E. O. Wilson: John M. Prather Lecture in Biology 2010 – Consilience
Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology. Born in Alabama, Wilson found an early interest with nature and fre
#56 – Edward Said: Dual Interviews – Orientalism + Life and Work in Palestine
Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian American academic, literary critic and political activist. A professor of literature at Columbia University he was among the founders of postcolonial studies. Born in
