At the March 1950 meeting:
“[D]ifferent participants brought disparate agendas concerning language: Licklider’s analysis of sound, Shannon’s concern with transfer of ‘information’ without regard to meaning, Mead’s pragmatic interest in acquiring speaking knowledge of exotic languages, Pitts’s formal and necessiarian objectives, and Bateson’s empirical-yet-theoretical reflections on process” (Heims 1991: 78)
