Chapter 10 An Excursion: The Future Design of Machines That Think
In the previous chapters we have described four giant mechanical brains finished by the end of 1946: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Differential Analyzer No. 2, Harvard’s IBM Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator, Moore School of Electrical Engineering’s Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (Eniac), and Bell Telephone Laboratories’ General-Purpose Relay Computer. All these brains have actually worked long enough to have demonstrated thoroughly some facts of great importance.