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andai on Feb 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bert Sutherland Has Died

Looks like they were doing pretty similar work! Here's Ivan's Sketchpad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o

alankay on Feb 20, 2020 | [–]

Please take the trouble to look more closely at what they did, and when.

oumua_don17 on Feb 20, 2020 | [–]

At 2:22 in the video, Ivan's manager says (paraphrased): "We are making the computer the human's (engineer's) assistant".

In 2020, he would say: "All engineers are the computer's assistant".

Where did we lose the way or we haven't?

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