I thought the same; my account [1]. Maybe Shannon [1937] influenced the ENAIC-ers? Dyson hardly mentions him (4 references [2]), of which the most notable is:

I thought the same; my account [1]. Maybe Shannon [1937] influenced the ENAIC-ers? Dyson hardly mentions him (4 references [2]), of which the most notable is: "Claude Shannon, whose mathematical theory of communication showed how a computer built from unreliable components could be made to function reliably from one cycle to the next." That sounds ... like a basis for translating Turing machines into hardware, not software. [1] http://whatarecomputersfor.net/versatile-information-machines/ http://whatarecomputersfor.net/versatile-information-machine... [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12625589-turing-s-cathedral https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12625589-turing-s-cathed...