ACF Electronics on Logic Machines, 1955
This booklet is a technical paper provided to the Air Force Cambridge Research Center. A lot of early work on AI, going all the way into the 1980s and beyond, was propped up by the U.S. armed forces and the industries surrounding it.
Poppy White:
“The ACF electronics collection is basically part of this research project into the logic machine. This first machine was theorized to have properties that would allow it to answer general problems. It’s one of the first times that had ever been considered. When computers were just solving numerical problems. This was theorizing all of these different things. I think a lot of that was because it’s an industrial company, so it was thinking a lot in terms of industry and computer’s role within that.”
