[wolverine876]

Simon was a polymath: PhD in political science, Nobel Prize-winner in economics, Turing award winner, leading scholar in AI, business management (iirc), etc.

Who are today's Herbert Simons? I don't mean people who match his fields of study exactly, but polymaths who are leading scholars across different fields.

[gumby]

Another great was Jay W. Forrester, inventor of core memory, urban planning professor, and applied mathematician, among other things.

Yeah, where are the true polymaths of today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester

[bordercases]

In the Santa Fe complexity institute.

[dreamcompiler]

I think Edward Fredkin was in that category.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin