14th December 2009
Quote
[I]n 1955 McCulloch and Jerome Wiesner successfully arranged to give Pitts a PhD from M.I.T. on the basis of his knowledge and work, though Pitts had never taken a single course for credit or fufilled formal Ph.D. requirments, Pitts refused to even sign the piece of paper - the one act required from him to receive the degree! Pitts seemed stubbornly to seek anonymity, even as Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, Jerome Wiesner, and others tried over the years to rescue him from it.
— Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America by Steve J Heims. 1991. MIT Press. London, England
Tagged: Cybernetics
