Cybernetics

Luciana Parisi’s research is a philosophical investigation of technology in culture, aesthetics and politics. She is a Professor in Media Philosophy at the Program in Literature and the Computational Media Art and Culture at Duke University. She is the author of Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004, Continuum Press) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (2013, MIT Press). She is completing a monograph on alien epistemologies and the transformation of logical thinking in computation.

Austrian philosopher known for his work in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.

English documentary filmmaker.

Theoretical physicist, AI language developer. Graduated from Moscow University in Theoretical Physics and got his Ph.D. in 1957. Worked on neutron and solid-state physics before focusing on statistical regularization methods and developing REFAL, one of the first AI languages.

Physiologist and researcher. Published research papers with Walter Cannon and Norbert Wiener, including the influential article 'Behavior, Purpose and Teleology'. Member of the core group at the Macy Conferences.

Mathematician and philosopher. Professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes.