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Love with eniac. He knew what it could do. Then it was this very wonderful thing where he taught clarie how to program it. There was a debate of who so what first, but somebody saw that they were designing the institute machine and writing code for it. But the machine was not ready. Someone said, we can rewire eniac and run programs on the eniac. They spent six weeks rewiring it and getting it to run. That was the origin of modern software. And that was such a fruitful time. So it was a mixture ...

those stories in detail, what is far more profound, however, what would also deal with tonight is the legacy and the implications of those fateful days. is at the hydrogen bomb itself is not faithful enough. at the center of it, john van norman, that petition, teacher, integer, towering intellect, the physicist edward teller describes john von neumann and is what it is a mentally superhuman race ever developed, its members would resemble johnny von neumann. this is not george dyson fir...

he was not a member. he was at mit. we kind of play of these conflicts. they worked closely on a number of things. area. to the hydrogen bomb. there were a lot of very said splits between people. it broke up friendships and so on. they also differed greatly on whether predictions. whoever believed we could long-range predict the weather and that that was not the terminus stick. so -- they didnt really argue but they didnt disagree. >> there are a couple questions from wesley park earli...