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From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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Turing’s Universal Machine: The Idea That Made Software Possible

Before computers became programmable products, Turing showed that one abstract machine could imitate any other effective procedure when given the right description.

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