In Memoriam: Herbert E Wright Jr 1917-2015

Herbert E Wright Jr was one of the foremost Quaternary scientists of the last century. He made wide ranging contributions to our understanding of the late-Quaternary of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. This was based largely on reconstructing palaeoenvironments from lake sediments and included the important implications for glacial, vegetational, fire and climatic history, geoarchaeology and conservation. Many of his inter-disciplinary research projects involved fieldwork with his graduate students and co-workers from the University of Minnesota where he created and led the renowned Limnological Research Center. Perhaps his most outstanding contribution was as an instigator of the Co-operative Holocene Mapping Project (COHMAP). This triggered a paradigm shift in Holocene climatic research involving the comparison of climate-model simulations of past climates with palaeoclimatic data.

Herbert H. Raphael [Illustration] : (Porträt)

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Herbert Samuel [Illustration] : (Porträt)

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Sir Herbert Samuel spricht in München über die Palästinafrage

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Herbert Bentwich [Illustration] : (Porträt)

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Cognitive Comparative Advantage and the Organization of Work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's Vision of the Future

In a marvelous but somewhat neglected paper, 'The Corporation: Will It Be Managed by Machines?' Herbert Simon articulated from the perspective of 1960 his vision of what we now call the New Economy the machine-aided system of production and management of the late twentieth century. Simon's analysis sprang from what I term the principle of cognitive comparative advantage: one has to understand the quite different cognitive structures of humans and machines (including computers) in order to explain and predict the tasks to which each will be most suited. Perhaps unlike Simon's better-known predictions about progress in artificial intelligence research, the predictions of this 1960 article hold up remarkably well and continue to offer important insights. In what follows I attempt to tell a coherent story about the evolution of machines and the division of labor between humans and machines. Although inspired by Simon's 1960 paper, I weave many other strands into the tapestry, from classical discussions of the division of labor to present-day evolutionary psychology. The basic conclusion is that, with growth in the extent of the market, we should see humans 'crowded into' tasks that call for the kinds of cognition for which humans have been equipped by biological evolution. These human cognitive abilities range from the exercise of judgment in situations of ambiguity and surprise to more mundane abilities in spatio-temporal perception and locomotion. Conversely, we should see machines 'crowded into' tasks with a well-defined structure. This conclusion is not based (merely) on a claim that machines, including computers, are specialized idiots-savants today because of the limits (whether temporary or permanent) of artificial intelligence; rather, it rests on a claim that, for what are broadly 'economic' reasons, it will continue to make economic sense to create machines that are idiots-savants.

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Sir Herbert Samuel [Illustration] : Gouverneur von Palästina

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Eröffnung der Hebräischen Universität in Jerusalem, 1. April [1925] [Illustration] : Die Festgäste im Amphitheater - Herbert Samuel spricht

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Ludwig Lewisohn, Der Fall Herbert Crump [Rezension]

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Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 134 - Korrespondenzen im Zusammenhang der Sigmund-Freud-Gedächtnis-Vorlesungen 1956 u.a. mit Herbert Marcuse (p. IV 3, 1-255)

Sigmund-Freud-Gedächtnis-Vorlesungen (Sommer-Semester 1956): Korrespondenz und Aktennotizen von Max Horkheimer und Alexander Mitscherlich; Briefe u. a. von Franz Alexander, Michael Balint, Gustav Bally, Ludwig Binswanger, Helmut Coing, Erik Erikson, Heinz Hartmann, Theodor Heuss, Edoardo Krapf, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Mitscherlich, Rene Spitz, Erwin Stengel, Robert Waelder, Frederik Wyatt, Hans Zulliger (Briefe zwischen Max Horkheimer und Alexander Mitscherlich sind nicht gesondert registriert); Norbert Altwicker: Korrespondenz im Auftrag von Max Horkheimer betrifft die Sigmund-Freud-Gedächtnis-Vorlesungen 1956; 1 Brief von Professor Helmut Coing (betrifft Sigmund-Freud-Gedächtnis-Vorlesungen 1956) an Max Horkheimer, Theodor Heuss, Georg August Zinn, das Hessische Kultusministerium, das Hessische Finanzministerium; Briefwechsel zwischen Bundespräsident Theodor Heuss und Max Horkheimer; 1 Brief von Helmut Coing an Theodor Heuss, 1956; 1 Brief von Max Horkheimer und Alexander Mitscherlich an Ernest Jones, 1956; 6 Briefe zwischen Professor Franz Alexander und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1956; 3 Briefe zwischen Professor Gustav Bally und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1956; 4 Briefe zwischen Michael Balint und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1956; 3 Briefe zwischen Ludwig Binswanger und Max Horkheimer, 1956; 4 Briefe zwischen Professor Erik H. Erikson und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1956; 3 Briefe zwischen Professor Edoardo Krapf und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1956; 6 Briefe zwischen Professor Herbert Marcuse und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1956; 14 Briefe zwischen Renè A. Spitz und Max Horkheimer, 1956; 4 Briefe zwischen Professor Erwin Stengel und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1956; 4 Briefe zwischen Professor Frederick Wyatt und Max Horkheimer, 1956; 4 Briefe zwischen Hans Zulliger und Max Horkheimer, 1955-1957; 4 Briefe zwischen Heinz Hartmann (Psychoanalytiker) und Max Horkheimer; 1 Brief von Theodor W. Adorno an Heinz Hartmann, 1955-1957; 1 Brief von Robert Waelder an Max Horkheimer, 1956;

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 356 - Korrespondenzen mit Herbert Marcuse (p. V 118, 1-383)

287 Briefe und Beilagen zwischen Herbert Marcuse und Max Horheimer, 1950-1973;