This Month In the History of Information Technologies
Gil PressEpisodes in the history of data, information, modern computing ("artificial intelligence"), and knowledge acquisition and transmission.
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Machine Intelligence
ChatGPT rendering of a “surreal 1950s mainframe computer”
Today’s AI saw the light of day eighty-two years ago, when Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts published “A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity” in the Decem...
Network Effects
On November 1, 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using reports from 24 locations, which were provided via telegraph. For the first time, weather observations from distant points could be “rapidly” coll...
Storing Information
On October 26, 2012, antiquarian bookseller Justin Croft wrote about the earliest surviving English paper book, the 1307 King’s Lynn Red Register:
The register is a collection of town documents written up in this book from the year 1307…...
Too Much Information?
What’s to be done about too much information? Is it possible to reduce information overload? How to find or discover what you need and only what you need?
One possible solution is to destroy containers of information that are deemed mislea...
The Life and Times of Maps
The history of information is the history of the products of human creativity, intelligence, and passions, and the preservation and transmission over time and space of humanity’s traditions, beliefs, and experiences. In other words, the his...
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I managed large-scale survey research projects at NORC, followed by market analysis at DEC and marketing and communications at EMC. More recently, I have been a freelance writer and a Senior Contributor to Forbes.com (Pressed Data column).
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