The history of digital computing can be divided into an Old
Testament whose prophets, led by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,
supplied the logic, and a New Testament whose prophets, led by John
von Neumann, built the machines. Alan Turing, whose “On...
Artist Paul
Hodgson was a Director's Visitor at the Institute in 2010. In a
Friends Forum, he discussed the "difficulties in making a judgement
and dubtfulness in choosing one thing over another," that underlie
his current practice and emerge "both...
Having assisted in the postwar transitions in Afghanistan and
Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, a Director's Visitor at the Institute in
2006-08, spoke in 2007 about the circumstances that led to the
current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He examined the...
