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IBM and Microsoft go beyond a handshake

Post author By Kathy E. Gill
Post date 6 November 2022
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DOS screen — MS-DOS command prompt

“IBM Signs A Deal With The Devil”

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Marie Curie delivers her inaugural lecture at Sorbonne University

Post author By Kathy E. Gill
Post date 5 November 2022
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Marie Curie, Wikipedia

Her life of science was one “first” after another.

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The first presidential election with a computer predicting the winner

Post author By Kathy E. Gill
Post date 4 November 2022
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UNIVAC prediction, Ike wins — A printout of the UNIVAC prediction of the 1952 presidential election. Programmers had failed to anticipate 100-to-1 odds (hence the 00). Computer History Museum image.

It was November 1952; the computer calculation conflicted with opinion polls. Guess which was right?

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