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This chapter reviews a brief history of computing to illustrate how we have arrived in our modern technologically driven landscape. How has the evolution of computing systems, which began with groups of people doing calculations manually and moved to transistors and then eventually to integrated circuits, set the stage for the technological explosion of the last 40 years? And more importantly, how did these events precipitate the qualitative shift from traditional computing to this idea that machines can “learn,” and what does that even mean?
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There are 255,168 ways to play a game of tic-tac-toe. In 131,184 of them the first player to move wins, in 77,904 the second player to move wins, and in 46,080 there is a tie.
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Rosett, C.M., Hagerty, A. (2021). Why Now? Computers Enable a Future with Machine Learning. In: Introducing HR Analytics with Machine Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67626-1_7
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