Murray Leinster's 1946 short story "A Logic Named Joe" contains one of the first descriptions of a computer (called a "logic") in fiction. In the story, Leinster was decades ahead of his time in imagining the Internet. He envisioned logics in every home, linked through a distributed system of servers (called "tanks"), to provide communications, entertainment, data access, and commerce; one character says that "logics are civilization."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Leinster#Writing_career
Joe is an interesting interpretation of AI in the 1940s.
There is a logic company, but its not directly related to A.I. research & development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech, http://www.logitech.com/en-ca/home ,
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/support/smart-tv
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12 ,
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/artificial-intelligence-robotics/13
There is a logic company, but its not directly related to A.I. research & development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech, http://www.logitech.com/en-ca/home ,
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/support/smart-tv
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12 ,
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/artificial-intelligence-robotics/13
From Joe to HAL:
