Neil Gershenfeld
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1,202 appearances
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
Neil Gershenfeld’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's one of the most oversubscribed classes at MIT.
Students would say things like, can you teach this at MIT?
It seems too useful.
It's just how to work these machines.
The students in the class, I would teach them all the skills to use all these tools, and then they would do projects integrating them.
They were amazing.
Kelly was a sculptor, no engineering background.
Her project was she made a device that saves up screams when you're mad and plays them back later.
You scream into this device and it deadens the sound, records it, and then when it's convenient, releases your scream.
Can we just pause on the brilliance of that invention?
Gone on to do a number of interesting things.
Mijin, who's gone on to do a number of interesting things, made a dress instrumented with sensors and spines.
And when somebody creepy comes close, it would defend your personal space.
Another project early on was a web browser for parrots, which have the cognitive ability of a young child and lets parrots surf the internet.
Another was an alarm clock you wrestle with and prove you're awake.
And what connects all of these is, so MIT made the first real-time computer, the Whirlwind.
That was transistorized as the TX.
The TX was spun off from MIT as the PDP.
PDPs were the mini computers that created the internet.
So outside MIT was DEC, Prime, Wang, Data General, the whole mini computer industry.
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