Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when computers were used for the first time to predict winners from early returns and the results were launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television.
Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when computers were used for the first time to predict winners from early returns and the results were launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ira Chinoy is an associate professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he founded and directs the Future of Information Alliance. He is a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, where he also served as director of computer-assisted reporting. Chinoy was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and has won the George Polk Award and other top journalism awards.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Fearsome Contraptions 2. We Wanted to Do Something Unusual 3. Are Computers Newsworthy? 4. Project X versus Operation Monrobot 5. Stirred Up by the Roughest Campaign of Modern Times 6. This Is Not a Joke or a Trick 7. The Mechanical Genius 8. The Trouble with Machines Is People 9. A Hazard of Being Discredited in the Public’s Mind 10. Truly the Question of Our Time Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Fearsome Contraptions 2. We Wanted to Do Something Unusual 3. Are Computers Newsworthy? 4. Project X versus Operation Monrobot 5. Stirred Up by the Roughest Campaign of Modern Times 6. This Is Not a Joke or a Trick 7. The Mechanical Genius 8. The Trouble with Machines Is People 9. A Hazard of Being Discredited in the Public’s Mind 10. Truly the Question of Our Time Notes Bibliography Index
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