The current residents of the famous Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, NJ were enjoying the Oppenheimer movie celebration at the Oscars last night!
"... If Oppenheimer’s first act was dedicated to building a technology (the “Gadget”), his second was devoted to an institution. The Institute was already famous when Oppenheimer joined it in 1947. It was home to some of the world’s most remarkable minds, each worthy of a biopic, including Albert Einstein, John von Neumann (who helped design the A and H bombs, invented the architecture for stored program computing, and conceived of game theory), Kurt Gödel, Erwin Panofsky, and many others. But with Oppenheimer’s arrival, he and his colleagues doubled down on the founding values of the Institute, convinced that those values could underwrite the kind of knowledge and discovery needed to meet a rapidly emerging crisis of humanity. ..."
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