Storygram: Amanda Gefter’s “The man who tried to redeem the world with logic”
Amanda Gefter is a physics writer and won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2015 for this story, which profiles Walter Pitts, a central figure of early cybernetics research. This annotation was done by Brendan Maher.
The Storygram series, in which professional writers annotate award-winning stories to illuminate what makes a great science story great, was a joint project of The Open Notebook and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. It was supported by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.