1949
Selekoa’s 4 records dated 1949, in date order, grouped by topic.
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Ideas & lineages 4 records
Dated to 1949 only
· publication · dated to the year
Hartree’s Calculating Instruments and Machines (1949) names Lady Lovelace and quotes her statement on the Analytical Engine. Evidence ↗Hartree, Calculating Instruments and Machines (1949) →Claim page →
· publication · dated to the year
Hartree’s Calculating Instruments and Machines (1949) says that equipment such as electronic calculating machines cannot “think for itself”: the thinking is done beforehand by the designer and the operator, and all the machine can do is follow its instructions exactly. He quotes Lovelace’s statement on the Analytical Engine to the same effect. Evidence ↗Hartree, Calculating Instruments and Machines (1949) →Claim page →
June 1949
· publication · dated to the day
Jefferson’s Lister Oration “The Mind of Mechanical Man” (BMJ, 25 June 1949) says that if a machine typewrites its answers, it may be said to have learned to write when it would be doing no more than telegraphic systems already do. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
Jefferson’s Lister Oration (BMJ, 25 June 1949) says that no mechanism could feel, rather than artificially signal, pleasure at its successes or grief when its valves fuse, and that only when a machine writes a sonnet or composes a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt could it be agreed that machine equals brain. Evidence ↗