Re: One of your readers... -- re Art Samuels

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Herb Schorr" <schorr () isi edu>
Date: September 3, 2008 12:51:27 PM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    One of your readers...

An interesting sidelight. Art Samuels was hired by IBM from AT&T  
because he knew how to run a tube plant. IBM would then integrate  
backwards and make everything they needed to make computers.
Art after looking at what was going on with transistors recommended  
that IBM not build such a plant and instead switch over to transistors  
and Art said his recommendation was followed by Watson.
Since he knew nothing about manufacturing transistors, Art went to IBM  
Research and proceeded to develop a checker playing program which was  
one of the first AI achievments'
I should add I didn't personally witness the events described above  
but was told this by Art.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Sent: Wed Sep 03 08:31:31 2008
Subject: [IP] Re:    One of your readers...







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