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Predicting the Winner
The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting
Buch von Ira Chinoy
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Ira Chinoy is an associate professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he founded and directs the Future of Information Alliance. He is a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, where he also served as director of computer-assisted reporting. Chinoy was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and has won the George Polk Award and other top journalism awards.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Fearsome Contraptions
2. We Wanted to Do Something Unusual
3. Are Computers Newsworthy?
4. Project X versus Operation Monrobot
5. Stirred Up by the Roughest Campaign of Modern Times
6. This Is Not a Joke or a Trick
7. The Mechanical Genius
8. The Trouble with Machines Is People
9. A Hazard of Being Discredited in the Public’s Mind
10. Truly the Question of Our Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781640125964
ISBN-10: 1640125965
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Chinoy, Ira
Hersteller: Potomac Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 162 x 36 mm
Von/Mit: Ira Chinoy
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,753 kg
Artikel-ID: 126875623
Über den Autor
Ira Chinoy is an associate professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he founded and directs the Future of Information Alliance. He is a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, where he also served as director of computer-assisted reporting. Chinoy was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and has won the George Polk Award and other top journalism awards.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Fearsome Contraptions
2. We Wanted to Do Something Unusual
3. Are Computers Newsworthy?
4. Project X versus Operation Monrobot
5. Stirred Up by the Roughest Campaign of Modern Times
6. This Is Not a Joke or a Trick
7. The Mechanical Genius
8. The Trouble with Machines Is People
9. A Hazard of Being Discredited in the Public’s Mind
10. Truly the Question of Our Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781640125964
ISBN-10: 1640125965
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Chinoy, Ira
Hersteller: Potomac Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 162 x 36 mm
Von/Mit: Ira Chinoy
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,753 kg
Artikel-ID: 126875623
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