During the late 1940s, the U.S. government sponsored substantial research in computer technology leading to the development of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer utilizing von Neumann's famed "stored program" concept. ... In the early 1960s, IBM Research recruited some of the most extraordinary scientific talent assembled anywhere, let alone in an industrial laboratory. It did so by convincing young and old scientists that they would be free to pursue their scientific investigations in broad research areas with virtually no restrictions, so long as they were successful in producing ...

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Technology was being used to transform myth into reality.1 Much later, mechanical ducks and humanoid figures, crafted by clockmakers, endlessly amused the Royal courts of the Enlightenment-age Europe. ... Evidence of Artificial Intelligence folklore can be traced back to ancient Egypt, but with the development of the electronic computer in 1935, the technology finally became available to create machine intelligence. ... Throughout my research I have found out artificial intelligence is in a lot of our technology right now and we don't even realize it. Between then and now, AI research ...

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America had expected to be first in space, and quickly found its image as a technology superpower and perceived lead in the arms race tarnished. ... (Diamond & Bates, 1995) Clearly, there was a technology gap, and the US was on the wrong side. ... Licklider saw that improvements could be made in C3 only through advancing the current state of computing technology. ... To progress tow he formed his department into a far-reaching research program for advanced technology. ... Lawrence Roberts points out that Baran's work was either classified or otherwise "unfortunately... very sparsely...

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By this time BBN had started to focus on computer technology. ... Taylor's goal wasn't building a network at the moment, but cutting the cost of the operations and the scientific experiments under his department. ... After his arriving to RANO, Baron's mail goal was to build more stable communications infrastructure, especially with the limited knowledge of other experts about the field of digital computer technology. ...

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Little did they know how fast technology was growing. ... The sequence included two lamps playing with a ball. 1988 Another new CG technology was pioneered in 1988 when LucasFilm used "morphing" to good effect in Willow5. ... It was embarking on a major effect to make the technology for photorealism accessible for a broad range of scientific visualization and computer-aided design applications. 1990's Computer animation was poised to take Hollywood by storm. ...

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