From a pin-up girl to star Trek's holodeck: Artificial intelligence and cyborgs

Abstract

Sometime Lee, Newton Dugan, Regina Google Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA\t See Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency between 1956 and 1958, an anonymous IBM IBM programmer rendered a glowing image of a pin-up girl Pin-up girl on a cathode ray tube Cathode ray tube screen of a $ 238 million U.S. military computer at Fort Lee, Virginia Fort Lee, Virginia. The pin-up image itself was programmed as a series of short lines, or vectors, encoded on a stack of about 97 Hollerith Hollerith, Herman type punched cards, Punched cards recalled Airman First Class Lawrence A. Tipton Tipton, Lawrence A. who took the Polaroid Polaroid photo shown in Fig. 1.1 that somewhat resembles a hybrid of Betty Boop Boop, Betty and Esquire's Esquire December 1956 calendar pin-up by George Petty. Petty, George.