The Dream Machine Quotes

“Libraries of the Future is, in fact, one of the founding documents of what is now called digital library research, which includes (among other things) our efforts to manage information in that sprawling mass of data known as the World Wide Web.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“[a successful communication] we now define concisely as ‘cooperative modeling’—cooperation in the construction, maintenance, and use of a model.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“In addition to our classic formats—text, tables, diagrams, equations, and the like—we now have the power to represent knowledge as a process, an executable program.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“It is the ultimate expressive medium, Lick later wrote—“the moldable, retentive, yet dynamic medium—the medium within which one can create and preserve the most complex and subtle patterns and through which [one] can make those patterns operate (as programs) upon other patterns (data).”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“we divided the scope into four quadrants and let each person have a quadrant of the scope.” That was one each for Fredkin, Lick, Minsky, and McCarthy—a format that quite possibly represented the first “windows” ever to appear on a computer screen.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“in November 1958, that Lick first used the term symbiosis in writing.)”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“The Truly SAGE System, or Toward a Man-Machine System for Thinking”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“handed Elkind the completed manuscript of “Man-Computer Symbiosis” on January 13, 1960.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“McCarthy called his first public description of Lisp “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“Lisp was John McCarthy’s invention.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“McCarthy decided that it was time to take that idea and turn it into a whole new language for AI.§ He and his students soon took to calling it List Processor, or Lisp.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“April 1957, and Fortran, the new Formula Translation language created for the IBM 704 by the mathematician John Backus”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“summer of 1956, the Dartmouth conference has subsequently become famous as the event that finally established artificial intelligence as a field in its own right and gave it the name that has stuck.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“Arthur Samuel had used the prototype 701 to test an early version of his checkers-playing program, which would later be hailed as one of the landmarks of artificial intelligence.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“the inventor of general-purpose computer “time-sharing,” a technique that let individual users interact with batch-processing behemoths in a way that looked very much like present-day personal computing.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“In December 1959, DEC shipped the prototype to the Eastern Joint Computer Conference in Boston for the PDP-1’s official world debut.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“December 1959, DEC shipped the prototype to the Eastern Joint Computer Conference in Boston for the PDP-1’s official world debut.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“There had never before been a machine that was this much in front of the competition. And never since. It was a singular event.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“Olsen, Anderson, and Olsen’s brother Stanley opened for business as DEC, the Digital Equipment Corporation.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“American Research and Development Corporation, one of the nation’s first venture-capital firms.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“the IBM 650, as it came to be called, would eventually become known as the Model T of the computer industry, the first mass-market computer.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“An operator watching his CRT display screen, giving commands to a computer via a keyboard and a handheld light gun, and sending data to other computers via a digital communications link:”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“SAGE planted the seeds of a truly powerful idea, the notion that humans and computers working together could be far more effective than either working separately.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“Project Lincoln—or Lincoln Laboratory, as it was renamed in 1952—they sound a lot like veterans of the Manhattan Project, or the Radiation Lab, or even the Apollo moon program of the 1960s.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“ENIAC was completed. The machine was demonstrated for a suitably awed press corps on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1946. And it worked just as Eckert and Mauchly had advertised, adding up thousands of multidigit numbers before the reporters could even blink.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine

“A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits” is arguably the most influential master’s thesis of the twentieth century: in it Claude Shannon laid the theoretical foundation for all of modern computer design, nearly a decade before such computers even existed.”
― M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine