Re: Some FT background stuff (guidelines for writers)

> > >  Ask any AI expert and they'll tell you were quite a way
> > > away from a working AI system for something as complex as ACM. I
> > > think they're being very optimistic about 20 years.
> > 
> > Yep, and in 1949, I think it was Turing said they'd only ever need
> > four or five computers in the entire world. Oops. 
> 
> Actually it was Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM who said that. As you 
> said Oops.

Okay, wrong guy, right idea. I knew it was someone important in 
computing before it was what it is today, and Turing was my 
shot-in-the-dark (that was why it was an "I think"). Thanks! 

> (I know this because I set it as a bar quiz question once...)

Heh. I too have indulged in such vices. Just shows you how much truly 
trivial knowledge we possess....
 
Tom
 
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