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In the excellent book Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, about the life of J.C.R. Licklider, there is the story of
by lunchladydoris 8y ago
In the excellent book Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, about the life of J.C.R. Licklider, there is the story of how SAGE, the system used for command-and-control strategic planning, was modified to become SABRE, the first airline reservation system. This has been a computational problem for a long time.