hermann ebbinghaus, über das gedächtnis: untersuchungen zur experimentellen psychologie, 1885, gescannt und online, also translated, 1905

MIT history serial to mark their 150th anniversary holds a recall of norbert wiener's achievements: prodigy of probability.

who kicked him out of office?

scifi:

there is a lot of guff in the talk of these days about "thinking machines" ... on the fringe of the activities, a few still talk about giant electronic brains. when, however, one of these, who has written a book on the subject, asked a seasoned applied mathematician, "dr. blake, do you believe that electronic computers think?" he was misunderstood to say "stink". the harried mathematician replied, "now that you put the words into my mouth, i rather think that they do." | how to build a thinking machine, jj coupling, aka john robinson pierce, 1950