Name: Black Mesa radio Ep.3 by BlackMesa in holographic universe
Duration: 46 min 26 s
Description: This week we discuss artificial intelligence, the holographic universe and more!

holographic universe

In this talk Tony Hey, Vice President of Microsoft Research, will explore the origins of computers and of ‘computational thinking’. The story begins with the key contributions of Alan Turing and John von Neumann and the twin concepts of universality and hierarchical abstraction. As an illustration of the importance of abstraction, the ‘File clerk’ model of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman computing will be described. Our examination of computer hardware takes us from logic gates to the microprocessor and Moore’s Law. On the software side, our discussion of algorithms begins with Euclid’s algorithm for the Greatest Common Divisor and ends with a description of PageRank, the ‘billion dollar’ algorithm that launched the search giant Google. An account of the origins of the personal computer, the Internet and Web then brings us up to the present. We end the talk with a look to the future with the rise of AI and Machine Learning and Butler Lampson’s ‘Third Age of Computing’. - See more at: http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/computing-universe-origins-computational-thinking#sthash.ErQvP1BH.dpuf

The computing universe: origins of computational thinking

This week we discuss artificial intelligence, the holographic universe and more! 

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When thinking about the future, it is easy to forget to look behind you. Enter George Dyson, “a historian among futurists”, who does deep research into the history of computing to understand the trends that will bring us into the future. 

One of his persistent themes is taking the “digital universe” metaphor seriously. When we turned on the first computers, we created a computational universe, a universe that is now growing by 5 trillion bits of storage per second. This universe is not merely expanding--it is exploding, and we need to understand computer time as well as we understand human time. 

"No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up" was given on March 19, 02013 as part of Long Now's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:

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George Dyson - No Time Is There: The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up

Black Mesa Radio is your source for Space discussions, Fringe science and everything in between. Hosted by a Chemist, Psychologist, Electrician and Historian, explore the universe with them each week as they discuss theories and ideas. If you have a passion for science, philosophy, physics and humor, this is the show for you. 