Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - The Long Now

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Mini-Bio of Richard Feynman Storys and Bio of the late great Richard Feynman, a fantastic mind and an interesting character. Mr. Feynman was a nobel-prize winner, the inventer of nanotechnology, and would do crazy things in his youth like pick the locks on safes at the top-secret Manhattan... more

Reviewed by billehunt Mar 05 2006, 01:12pm ( 14 reviews ) • longnow.org

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Rated by km on May 26, 2:46pm

Two of my favorite things: Feynman and torus-interconnected parallel computers.
Rated by SketchSepahi on May 22, 2:03pm

What a remarkable man he must have been. One of those people that are truly one of a kind.
Rated by PeterCJ on Apr 11 2009, 2:30pm

a good read
Rated by brendonboshell on Nov 23 2008, 12:57pm

From the page: ""Yeah," he sighed, "that bugs me sometimes too. But not so much as you think." And after a few more steps, "When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway." "
Rated by capebretoner on Aug 28 2008, 5:02am

Amazing essay, I am very glad that I stumbled onto it when I had time to read it through.
Rated by M-104 on Jun 01 2008, 10:39pm

This account of Richard Feynman's involvement with what he described as a "crazy" computing project sheds a bit of light on his charming, eager-to-explain nature. After reading this, I'm reminded of how important clear communication is to science - and any kind of problem-solving, for that matter.

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