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Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? And we’re really good at that.

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But when he posted a farewell message on CompuServe, one of the company’s chief system operators offered him free connection time in exchange for becoming an assistant sysop, a person who runs a computer server. “I I gave an enthusiastic Yes! before he could change his mind,” Zittrain says.

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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