The Computer and the Mind of Man; 1; Logic By Machine

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Series
The Computer and the Mind of Man
Episode Number
1
Episode
Logic By Machine
Producing Organization
KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
National Educational Television and Radio Center
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Contributing Organization
KQED (San Francisco, California)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/55-21tdzsbq
NOLA Code
CMMN
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Description
Episode Description
The first program serves as a basic introduction to computers. Dr. Richard C. Hamming, research mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discusses the computer revolution - "speed, cost and effort favor the computer over the laboratory approach." Dr. Ernest Nagel, a leading logician and philosopher at Columbia University, talks about the relationship of man and machine and the relationship of the symbolic world of mathematics to the real world of objects and events. The computer is the ideal tool to handle the information explosion in science: it can process millions of bits of data in seconds, can run manufacturing plants, can simulate the firing of rockets, and can handle as many arithmetic figures in one minute as a man can handle in a lifetime. With computers, man is able to construct a mathematical simulation of a rocket firing instead than a material one - for instance a mathematical simulation of a rocket firing instead of actually setting up and firing a real rocket - and ask new questions and get new answers. Although computers cannot think, they can calculate, remember and compare. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
In the 1940s a different kind of tool was invented a tool for extending certain powers of mans mind, the electronic computer. It is the fast, reliable, and tireless performance of a variety of arithmetic and logical operatic is which gives the computer its great utility and power. What this exciting invention means to mankind now and in the future is the subject of this provocative series. According to a series guest Dr. Richard Hamming, research mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories, The computer revolution is often compared with the famous industrial revolution in importance and scope. The industrial revolution effectively released man from being a beast of burden; the computer revolution will similarly release man from slavery to a dull, repetitive routine computers, because they enable us to ask new questions, will enable us to get entirely new answers because the questions are new, the answers are also new and very exciting Animation, art, film, and dramatic sequences highlight the series. Under a grant from the International Business Machines Corporation, The Computer and the Mind of man was produced by N.E.T. by KQED in San Francisco. The 6 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on film. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Created Date
1962-12-03
Asset type
Episode
Topics
Education
Technology
Media type
Moving Image
Credits
Animator: Ensrud, E. Wayne
Associate Producer: Langee, Harvey
Composer: Subotnick, Morton
Director: Moore, Richard
Director: Moore, Richard
Editor: Saraf, Irving
Editor: Saraf, Irving
Guest: Hamming, Richard C.
Guest: Nagel, Ernest
Producer: Moore, Richard
Producer: Moore, Richard
Producing Organization: KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Production Manager: Katz, Robert
Release Agent: KQED
Writer: Moore, Richard
Writer: Moore, Richard
AAPB Contributor Holdings
KQED
Identifier: KQ72_20274;20274 (KQED AAP)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy
Duration: 00:30:00?
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2405094-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2405094-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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Citations
Chicago: “The Computer and the Mind of Man; 1; Logic By Machine,” 1962-12-03, KQED, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-21tdzsbq.
MLA: “The Computer and the Mind of Man; 1; Logic By Machine.” 1962-12-03. KQED, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-21tdzsbq>.
APA: The Computer and the Mind of Man; 1; Logic By Machine. Boston, MA: KQED, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-21tdzsbq