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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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SAGE and the Command Console That Made Computers Interactive

The SAGE air-defense system put operators in front of graphical displays with light guns and real-time data, making interactive computer control a large-scale operational reality in the 1950s.

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Whirlwind and the Origins of Real-Time Interactive Programming

MIT's Whirlwind joined high-speed digital computation with real-time input, graphical displays and pointing interaction, creating a programming environment markedly different from later batch-processing mainframes.

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