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dated July 11, 1953: Marvellous Machines

In the spring of 1952, there was news from Great Britain of an automatic computing engine that had humbled the Duke of Edinburgh in chess. Another dispatch from Spain cited a similar chess trial in which a machine gave up in disgust because its human opponent was playing too elementary a game. However, a realistic appraisal of the capacity of thinking machines led to the conclusion that the machines could not work without human direction. But what the machines were already doing was nothing short of marvellous. The future tasks they could be made to perform promised a change in the working habits of millions of people.

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