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1. From a Pin-up Girl to Star Trek’s Holodeck: Artificial Intelligence and Cyborgs

Author : Newton Lee

Published in: Digital Da Vinci

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

Sometime between 1956 and 1958, an anonymous IBM programmer rendered a glowing image of a pin-up girl on a cathode ray tube screen of a $ 238 million U.S. military computer at Fort Lee, Virginia. “The pin-up image itself was programmed as a series of short lines, or vectors, encoded on a stack of about 97 Hollerith type punched cards,” recalled Airman First Class Lawrence A. Tipton who took the Polaroid photo shown in Fig. 1.1 that somewhat resembles a hybrid of Betty Boop and Esquire’s December 1956 calendar pin-up by George Petty.

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Title
From a Pin-up Girl to Star Trek’s Holodeck: Artificial Intelligence and Cyborgs
Author
Newton Lee
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Digital Da Vinci

Print ISBN: 978-1-4939-0964-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4939-0965-0

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0965-0_1