Fallout from an exploding bubble of hype triggered the real AI Winter in the late 1980s.
Thomas Haigh
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There Was No ‘First AI Winter’
Despite challenges and failures, the artificial intelligence community grew steadily during the 1970s.
Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.
Exploring Ellen Ullman's 'Close to the Machine' and AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
New discoveries answer an old question.
Hey Google, What’s a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo
Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.
Defining American Greatness: IBM from Watson to Trump
Reflections on a firm that encapsulated the American Century.
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