{"id":6466,"date":"2017-09-06T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T00:41:35","slug":"timeline-technology-intelligent-watsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/blog\/timeline-technology-intelligent-watsons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Timeline of Technology and Intelligent Watsons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CoHo Productions presents
\n<\/em>The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence<\/h3>\n

by Madeleine George<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n
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CoHo Season 22<\/h3>\n

September 8 \u2013 September 30, 2017<\/h3>\n

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How Did We Get Here? Wires, Wisdom, and Watsons.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

January 6, 1838<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span> Samuel Morse sends America\u2019s first telegram across two miles of wiring.
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July 27, 1866<\/strong>
\nThe first translatlantic telegraph is completed, allowing the first transatlantic telegraphy communications.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>March 10, 1876<\/strong>
\nAlexander Graham Bell places the first telephone call, answered by his assistant Thomas A. Watson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1878 \u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe first manual switchboard for telephone communication debuts in Boston.<\/span><\/p>\n

1881<\/strong>
\nThe first long distance phone service is available in the USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Winter 1887 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nSir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes <\/span>A Study in Scarlet,<\/span><\/i> the first Sherlock Holmes story, with narration from Dr. \u00a0John Watson.<\/span><\/p>\n

June 16, 1911<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nThomas J. Watson, Sr. founds the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR).<\/span><\/p>\n

1924<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nCTR becomes International Business Machines (IBM)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1944<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nIBM co-develops its first computer, the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I) with Harvard University.<\/span><\/p>\n

1946<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nIBM provides a translation system for the Nuremberg trials.
\n<\/span>The first mobile car-based telephone system is introduced. It weighed 80 lbs.<\/span><\/p>\n

1952<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nThomas J. Watson, Jr. becomes president of IBM.<\/span><\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nThe term \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d is coined.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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1964-1966<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nELIZA, and early natural language processing computer program, is created at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. ELIZA simulated conversation by using pattern matching to create the illusion that the program understood and could respond appropriately to human language.<\/span><\/p>\n

1973<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe first non-car mobile phone (DynaTAC) appears.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1981<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe IBM Personal Computer 5150 debuts, a landmark in the transition of computing from the province of the military and big government to everyday people.<\/span><\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe first flip phone is released. It cost $3,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

1996<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system is introduced, allowing telephone calls to be made via the internet instead of analog telephone lines. There will be 1 billion VoIP users by the end of 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

1997<\/strong>
\n<\/span> IBM\u2019s Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparaov in a ch<\/span>ess match.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The iPhone debuts.<\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/giphy-4-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

February 16, 2011<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span>
\nIBM\u2019s Watson computing platform defeats human champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2014 and beyond<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nIBM\u2019s Watson artificial intelligence technology is being used in automobiles, healthcare, education, retail, business, and law enforcement applications around the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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