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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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No more is said about Bush, even though he also opposed the first H-bomb test, on the grounds that the test, held on 1 November 1952, would help the Soviet Union build its own superweapon and accelerate a nuclear arms race. Bush was spared sanction and continued to serve in government, while Oppenheimer became a pariah.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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In a December 2019 Wired magazine interview, Jerome Pesenti, Facebook's Vice President of AI, suggested that even for a company with pockets as deep as Facebook's, this would be financially unsustainable: When you scale deep learning, it tends to behave better and to be able to solve a broader task in a better way.

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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. s networking advanced development group in Massachusetts. I took our idea to three levels of management, looking for approval to build a prototype of the learning bridge that Mark envisioned.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. PARC is one of three research centers within Xerox; the other two are in Webster, N.Y., and Toronto, Ont.,

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Ivan E. Sutherland built it in 1962 as a Ph.D. Smith et al.,

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