BAfter Freud, the most important event in dream science was the discovery in the early 1950s of a phase of sleep characterized by intense brain activity and rapid eye movement (REM). People awakened in the midst
Some of the most popular toys from the 50s include lithographed tin toy cars, friction cars, die-cast cars, trucks and farm equipment. For girls, plastic mannequin dolls for dressing finally got popular enough for a major toy manufacturer to start making them. This doll was called Barbie. Ma...
I bet you haven’t heard most of these songs. It’s amazing what we think was popular back then and what actually was popular in the 50s. It makes me wonder what’s going to be popular in the future that isn’t popular now! Names like Patti Page, Perry Como and Nat King Cole car...
(Hyde Park Roslindale) and Ray Flynn took over as mayor from Kevin White. City hall was entertaining, lots of characters. I will never forget Dapper O’Neil dropping a Lugar pistol on my desk as he explicated his heroics during WWII. Menino was lucky, in those days we referred to his ...
What was the unemployment rate in the 1950s?UnemploymentIn simple words, a person who is not gainfully employed in any productive activity is known as unemployed. Unemployment is a term used for the persons or employees who are permanently suspended, resigns or quits their job and is not ...
It was all up to me in the end, to take advantage of what was available. “Onward and upward” was the saying I heard, and what happened. There’s much more to thank, such as the friends and colleagues, the helpers I never may have fully been aware of, the medical care I got ...
The term “artificial intelligence” wascoined in 1956by computer scientist John McCarthy for a workshop at Dartmouth. But he wasn’t the first to write about the concepts we now describe as AI. Alan Turing introduced the concept of the “imitation game” in a 1950 paper. That’s the tes...
The term “hacking” as it relates to technology first emerged in the 1950s at MIT, where it was used by members of the Tech Model Railroad Club to refer to the process of creatively solving a technical problem in an innovative way. In the 1960s, these students migrated from trains to ...
in countries with their own varying perspectives on AI, particularly China.) Partly, it’s the pace of development. But the science is also wide open. Today’s large language modelscan do amazing things. The field just can’t find common ground onwhat’s really going on under the hood. ...
That was the epitaph fromMidnight Trainsfounder Adrien Aumont on May 31, signaling that its vision of creating a new network of luxury night trains linking major European cities had hit the buffers. Ad Feedback Prior to the company’s demise, it had looked like Europe was poised for something...