As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Is there any turning ...

He correctly predicted the 1936 race – and launched an industry. Others followed, each with their own methodology, including the pioneering Simulmatics Corporation, which deployed an IBM 704 computer ...

Others followed, each with their own methodology, including the pioneering Simulmatics Corporation, which deployed an IBM 704 computer the size of a large room and offered its services to help a ...

If Then By Jill Lepore (2020) 2. “If Then” details the rise of the Simulmatics Corp., a Silicon Valley-esque tech company of the 1950s and ’60s. The company’s goal was to help win political campaigns ...

but it can explain what happened, and why.’ And yet this is the question that the creators of the Simulmatics Corporation sought, in any number of different political contexts, to get computers to ...