Cold War; Dr Dudley Buck

[South]

https://www.news.com.au/technology/inno ... 05781ece35


Good afternoon all,

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Dr Buck invented/developed the Craytron.

Article is FWIW; IN 1959, what was background for Soviet scientists to visit this MIT lab and IBM ?

Article mentions Noam Chomsky (a member of the visiting Soviet scientists delegation ?).

~ Bob
eastern Virginia, USA

[wm]

Another conspiracy theory. Like Flat Earth only boring.

The cryotron was a dead end invention.
Two wires submerged in liquid helium - nobody was going to build computers from a mass of wires and helium.
By that time smaller than cryotrons, high speed, reliable transistors were sold, and transistor computers existed.
And didn't need any helium.

[South]

Good morning Wm,

For us Americans....some of us, at least....the article did provide an "I&W" - the military intelligence abbreviation for "indicator and warning".

The name Noam Chomsky........ Chomsky would appear as a wacko radical out of place even at a Trotsky meeting.


~ Bob
eastern Virginia, USA

[wm]

it seems he still was in his pre-wacko stage.
According to Wikipedia, he worked there as a linguist on a computer translation project.

[South]

Good morning Wm,

For only - some - of us; not all. Many "camp-followers" here.

Our nation was divided before, during and after the US Civil War.

Noam Chomsky was a "known-known".


~ Bob
eastern Virginia, USA