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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. A second wire also wrapped around the core forms a control winding. The control winding includes many turns of wire, so by passing a relatively small direct current through it, the iron core can be forced into or out of saturation. David Schneider. In 1956, the. Sperry Rand Co.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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In 1967, MIT professor. In the late 1980s, the cold winds of commerce brought on the second AI winter. The field of AI began at a 1956 workshop [top] attended by, from left, Oliver Selfridge, Nathaniel Rochester, Ray Solomonoff, Marvin Minsky, an unidentified person, workshop organizer John McCarthy, and Claude Shannon.

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