Artifact Details

Title

Alex Bernstein plays computer chess on the IBM 704

Catalog Number

102645434

Type

Moving Image

Description

Dr. Donald Horing, Princeton U., explains computing principles. Claude Shannon, MIT demonstrates mouse-maze "learning" machine, IBM 704 plays chess (examines 2800 positions in 8 minutes!). Pattern recognition demonstration by Leon Harmon, Bell Labs. Compares computers to human brain. Projects future capabilities. CU of early transistor, neural network model. Red & faded. See https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/mov-433190c26dd21/

Date

1958

Publisher

Educational Testing Service

Duration

00:04:33