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. Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades. from MIT in 1963.

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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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