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Jerry Lettvin
For those who knew him: this is YOUR wiki!
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The goal of this wiki is to broaden the scope of the biographical information beyond what editors at wikipedia allow, where a number of important entries have been deleted.
quotes
Better obsession than depression.
If it doesn't change everything, why waste your time doing the study?
I love things complexly because they are complex.
In Freudian theory everything reminds you of sex. In mythology sex reminds you of everything.
How would God have designed it?
It is not art that concerns you but politics, not taste but special interest, not excellence but propriety.
This in his resignation letter to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences when they withdrew the annual Emerson-Thoreau medal from Ezra Pound for his leanings during World War II.
Bullshit! [1]
MIT Building 20 Stories by Brad Howland
Offered with permission from Brad.
Part of the charm of these stories is that they are TYPEWRITTEN. Portions of the scans are tilted, go off the page, making some stories incomplete. So here, in all their glory, are the collected stories of Building 20 as told by Brad Howland.
Please send email to Jonathan D. Lettvin to receive contact information for Brad.
7.36 Advanced Neurophysiology (transcribed by C. L. Searle, made available by Gad Geiger)
- Cover page (upside down)
- Lecture 1
- Lecture 2
- Lecture 3
- Lecture 4
- Lecture 5
- Lecture 6
- Lecture 7
- Lecture 8 and 9
- Lecture 10
- Lecture 11
doctoral_students (incomplete)
- George Plotkin
- Ed Gruberg
- Shin-Ho Chung
- Bill Saidel
- Eric Newman
- Susan Udin
- Robert Gesteland
- Gill Pratt
- Stephen Waxman
- Mike Brill
- Michael Brill
- Rusty Bobrow
- Frank Axelrod
- Charlie Epstein
- Harriet Fell
- Mark Lurie
- Steve Raymond
- Ian Hentall
- Glenn Boley
- Norman Geschwind
influences (incomplete)
- Norbert Wiener
- Warren McCulloch
- Walter Pitts
- Derek Denny-Brown
- Santiago Ramón_y_Cajal
- Charles Scott_Sherrington
- Rafael Lorente De No
- John Zachary_Young
influenced (incomplete)
- John Dowling
- Robert Provine
- Gadi Geiger
- John Moore
- Tom Sabin
- Hyman Hartman
- Lynn Margulis
- Joel Moses
- Marc Abrahams
- Jeffrey Nicoll
- Peter Cariani
- Sidney Coleman
- Whitfield Diffie
- Maurice Fox
- Danny Hillis
- Bela Julesz
- Harvey Karten
- Benoit Mandelbrodt
- Marvin Minsky
- Phil Morrison
- Paul Pangaro
- Bob Rose
- Campbell Searle
- Oliver Selfridge
- Louie Smullin
- Gunther Stent
- Gerry Sussman
- Costa Tsipis
- Hertha Von Dechend
- Giorgio DeSantillana
- Joe Weizenbaum
- Pat Winston
- Ed Mlavsky
- Carleton Gajdusek
- Brian Boycott
Others
- Roger Trilling
- Roger Trilling
An old fashoned HTML page
Dowben Rose Microelectrode
Poetry
Papers
Wikipedia copy of text without images etc...
Sketches
Some caricatures sent by Charlie Epstein who wrote:
"I found a caricature Jerry did of me, and a collection of sketches done by a sketch artist one night, in the mid-70s at Legal Seafood (in Inman Square)."
