On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, cswiger wrote:
> >Hey, Chuck. Do you happen to remember approximately when that Shannon
> >article appeared? Berkeley had many logic toys and robots, including a
>
> Ok - don't have the Scientific Earthling article that a similar
> project appeared in, but found in an IEEE book "C.E. Shannon:
> Collected Papers" one called "Presentation of a Maze-Solving
> Machine" - from "Transactions 8th Cybernetics Conference,
> Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, 1952".
>
> Is a thick and chewy book. Also, get this - in the paper on
> "Programming a computer for Playing Chess" (National IRE
> Conference, March 9, 1949), he referances the game of Nim,
> and that a machine able to play a perfect game has been
> constructed - Condon, Tawney and Derr, U.S. Patent 2,215,544.
> The "Nimotron" based on this patent was built and exhibited
> by Westinghouse at the 1938 New York World's Fair.
>
That would also be about the time that they exhibited their robot man.
Gawd, I wish I could think of 'his' name. Pretty limited abilities, but
could move and do some rather simple things.
- don
> Chuck
> cswiger_at_widomaker.com
>
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