Artifact Details

Title

Horizons of Science: Thinking Machines

Catalog Number

102651762

Type

Moving Image

Description

Dr. Donald Horing of Princeton University explains computing principles. Claude Shannon of MIT demonstrates mouse-maze "learning" machine, and 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.

Publisher

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Place of Publication

Princeton, NJ, US

Identifying Numbers

Deprecated CHM identification number VT 337

Duration

00:18:10

Dimensions

6" cassette

Format

Betacam SP

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