Another document from this bubbly time is this NYT article from July 1958, on a demo of Rosenblatt's perceptron ("NEW NAVY DEVICE LEARNS BY DOING") -- http://qu

Another document from this bubbly time is this NYT article from July 1958, on a demo of Rosenblatt's perceptron ("NEW NAVY DEVICE LEARNS BY DOING") -- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01E4D8173DE53BBC4053DFB1668383649EDE http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01E4D8173DE... "Perceptrons might be fired to the planets as mechanical space explorers."