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Predicting the Winner : The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting / Ira Chinoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chinoy, Ira, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--Election--1952.
- Presidents.
- Presidents--United States--Election--Forecasting.
- Election forecasting--Technological innovations--United States.
- Election forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, [2024]
- Summary:
- Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when computers were used for the first time to predict winners from early returns and the results were launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television.
- Contents:
- Fearsome Contraptions
- We Wanted to Do Something Unusual
- Are Computers Newsworthy?
- Project X versus Operation Monrobot
- Stirred Up by the Roughest Campaign of Modern Times
- This Is Not a Joke or a Trick
- The Mechanical Genius
- The Trouble with Machines Is People
- A Hazard of Being Discredited in the Public's Mind
- Truly the Question of Our Time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781640126169
- 1640126163
- 9781640126152
- 1640126155
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