Movies
A Midcentury GE Superstar Returns to the Limelight
In Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Fabelmans, the director brings it all back home with a largely fact-based portrayal of his upbringing in New Jersey, Arizona, and Northern California. Burt Fabelman, as many GE history buffs could tell you, is based on the very real Arnold Spielberg, Steven’s father, who worked for the company in Phoenix in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where he developed one of the first mainframe computers and helped pave the way for the programming of the BASIC computer language, which ushered in personal computing.
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Computer Pioneer Arnold Spielberg Dies At 103. He Helped Build GE's First Digital Blockbuster
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE in Phoenix. His designs included a revolutionary machine that a group of computer scientists at Dartmouth College later used to write BASIC, the programming language that revolutionized personal computing.
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BASIC Necessities: How GE Helped Launch The Computing Language That Changed The World
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Computers Can Now Read Your Emotions. Here’s Why That’s Not As Scary As It Sounds
Innovation
Developing The Perfect ‘Imperfect’ AI System
In terms of algorithms and techniques, we’re still in the infancy of artificial intelligence. And even in the future, A.I. systems will need humans just as much as humans need A.I., writes Head of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University.
Humanity needs artificial intelligence systems that act more like companions than superheroes. In the future, AI systems will need humans just as much as humans need AI.
Mother Of Invention: This Barrier-Busting Electrical Engineer Joined Edison, Tesla in National Inventors
When Edith Clarke was born, the odds that she would one day join a group of celebrated inventors including Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell seemed microscopic. She lived in a pre-computer era when the few women with science education worked mostly as “human computers,” helping their male colleagues solve labor-intensive equations.
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Spielberg: Computer Pioneer Who Helped Design GE’s First Computers Turns 100 On Monday
The name Spielberg brings to mind a movie magician whose blockbusters changed storytelling forever. But Steven Spielberg isn’t the first disruptor in the family. His father, Arnold, who turns 100 on Monday, helped mold computing — a field whose rise and dominance over all areas of life has no peer in the history of mankind.
History
GE At 125: These Pioneers Helped Shape The Way We Live [Video]
Innovation
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Jurassic Hardware: Steven Spielberg’s Father Was A Computing Pioneer
From Thomas Edison to former President Ronald Reagan and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, GE has employed a number of luminaries since its founding 124 years ago. One famous name missing from this list was Spielberg.