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Irving John Good – Review of D. R. Hartree, Calculating Instruments and Machines Irving John Good Review of D. R. Hartree, Calculating Instruments and Machines article

The threshold between a machine which was the intellectual inferior or superior of a man would probably be reached if the machine could do its own programming.

Irving John Good, Review of D. R. Hartree, Calculating Instruments and Machines, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), vol. 114, no. 1, 1951, pp. 106–7, p. 107