Walter Cronkite (right) listens as Dr. J. Presper Eckert (center) describes the functions of the UNIVAC I computer he helped develop in the early 1950s. AP hide caption toggle caption AP All Tech Considered The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President October 31, 2012 • Sixty years ago, computers were used for the first time to predict the outcome of a presidential race. CBS used the UNIVAC, one of the first commercial computers, on loan. The prediction was spot on, but a decade passed before the computer's potential was finally realized on election night. The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President Listen · 7:49 7:49 Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/163951263/164011440" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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