Remove this early effort in machine problem-solving and artificial intelligence
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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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Bob Sproull, a lifelong colleague of Sutherland and himself a major figure in computing, served as instigator, interviewer, and editor for these oral histories, and he involved me, Marc Weber, and Jim Waldo in the effort. from MIT in 1963. Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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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. And half the time, it’s completely wrong.” Rodney Brooks, Robust.AI

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

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told the New York Society of Security Analysts that Xerox was determined to develop “the architecture of information” to solve the problems that had been created by the “knowledge explosion.” In late 1969, C. Peter McColough, chairman of Xerox Corp., Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E. Goldman tells it differently.

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