... began converge on AI. Engineers began to view brain synapses as mechanistic constructs. "Cybernetics," the study of communication and control in biological and mechanical systems, became a well-known word. Claude Shannon pioneered a theory of information, explaining how information was created and how it might be encoded and compressed. Vannevar Bush's wrote an essay predicting that networks around the world could ... WWII most likely saved Britain in that war; his work in computing laid the foundations of the PC revolution and the Internet.2 Oddly, one aspect of Turing's work has been ...

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