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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The Computer History Museum recently made public its two-part oral history with Sutherland. And the two-part video of the interview is available here and here. Ivan Sutherland’s Unique Perspective There is a phrase, popular in 17th and 18th century England, that occurs to me when thinking about Ivan Sutherland: “A man of many parts.”

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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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