Today in 1957, Desk Set was released.
By the end of the film Desk Set, she proves her point by winning, not only the engineer’s heart, but also a contest with the ominous looking EMERAC, a room-size “Electronic Brain.”
A few years before the first “electronic brains” started automating work, Fremont Rider, Wesleyan University Librarian, published The Scho…
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