1962 footage shows UMIST principal B.V. Bowden playing checkers against a computer
MIT_CSAIL · x · 2026-10-24
MIT CSAIL shares early BBC footage from 1962 of former UMIST principal B.V. Bowden playing checkers against a computer, from the early days of machine learning — a rare record of early human-vs-machine play.
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