CLIMB

While CLIMB is focused on the future, it also builds on a vision of the past, revisiting themes that began to emerge a century ago, when individuals such as Andrei Kolmogorov, John von Neumann, Jerzy Neymann, Alan Turing, Abraham Wald, and Norbert Wiener devised mathematical formulations of concepts such as "algorithm," "probability," "feedback," "uncertainty," "model," and "risk." Although their ideas reposed on both the deductive and inductive traditions of mathematics, it was their blending of those traditions that yielded some of the most exciting new developments in science and engineering during the twentieth century. The scope was further broadened in the hands of individuals such as David Blackwell, Herbert Robbins, and Claude Shannon, whose work led to new perspectives on economics, communications, and psychology. Terms such as "cybernetics" were coined in an attempt to capture the unity of the overall enterprise, but the vast scope of the enterprise made it difficult to..

Primary location: Berkeley United States