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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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Harvard Mark I and the Birth of Large-Scale Program Preparation

The Harvard Mark I turned programming into organized preparation: translating mathematical procedures into tape instructions, checking them, reusing subroutines, and documenting a machine for teams of operators.

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