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Category Archives: Computer History
Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Brief History
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Lessons for Corporate Venture Capital Firms from the early days of Intel Capital
Corporate venture capital (CVC) firms broke records last year. Funding increased 47% to $52.95 billion and 264 new corporate venture groups invested for the first time, a 35% increase over 2017. There were 773 active CVCs worldwide in 2018, participating … Continue reading
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A Very Short History of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
1308 Catalan poet and theologian Ramon Llull publishes Ars generalis ultima (The Ultimate General Art), further perfecting his method of using paper-based mechanical means to create new knowledge from combinations of concepts. The nine most fundamental principles of the … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI history, Big Data History, Computer History, Data Science History
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ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer
The history of technology, whether of the last five or five hundred years, is often told as a series of pivotal events or the actions of larger-than-life individuals, of endless “revolutions” and “disruptive” innovations that “change everything.” It is history … Continue reading
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When Lovelace and Babbage Met Padua
Accidental entrepreneurs stumble sometimes into what turns out to be a most wonderful venture. Take, for example, computer animator Sydney Padua. One day in 2009 she drew a web comic illustrating the life of Ada Lovelace. It was at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ada Lovelace, Analytical Engine, Charles Babbage, Difference Engine, Sydney Padua
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