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Fourth part of the out-of-print and unavailable documentary about the history of computers.
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1 year ago 0 + -Jerome Wiesner (MIT) on The Thinking Machine from 1961
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1 year ago 0 + -Computer plays checkers
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1 year ago 0 + -Marvin Minsky (MIT)
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1 year ago 0 + -Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy set up the AI Lab at MIT
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1 year ago 0 + -Jim Slagel devises a computer program to solve calculus problems, and it gets an A on an MIT exam
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1 year ago 0 + -Dr. Hubert Dreyfus (UC Berkeley)
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1 year ago 0 + -Edward Feigenbaum (Stanford)
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1 year ago 0 + -Oliver Selfridge of Lincoln Laboratories on whether computers will someday think
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1 year ago 0 + -Claude Shannon
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1 year ago 0 + -Hans Moravec (Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute)
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1 year ago 0 + -Alan Turing devises the Turing Test for machine intelligence in 1950
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1 year ago 0 + -Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA (1966)
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1 year ago 0 + -Doug Lenat (University of Texas, Austin)
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1 year ago 0 + -Freddie Robot at the University of Edinburgh
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1 year ago 0 + -Machine translation in the 1950s
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1 year ago 0 + -Hubert Dreyfus, "What Computers Can't Do" (1972)
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1 year ago 0 + -Sir James Lighthill
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1 year ago 0 + -Edward Feigenbaum's work into expert systems
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1 year ago 0 + -Idiot savants
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1 year ago 0 + -Using scripts and frames to provide context
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1 year ago 0 + -The Commonsense Knowledge Problem
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1 year ago 0 + -Doug Lenat's Cyc project
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1 year ago 0 + -Oliver Sacks
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1 year ago 0 + -Perceptrons, trained to learn human hairstyles
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1 year ago 0 + -Neural networks
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1 year ago 0 + -Dean Pomerleau's autonomous vehicles
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1 year ago 0 + -NetTalk
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1 year ago 0 + -Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute)
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1 year ago 0 + -The Cyc Project