# Computer And The Mind Of Man Pt 3, The Universal Machine

Explains that the computer is a universal machine in that it is capable of doing whatever man is capable of instructing it to do. Shows how decisions from a computer depend on data and instructions put into it. Discusses the problem of a universal machine language." A.L. Samuel from IBM describes his checkers-playing computer program. UC's Ernest Koenigsberg of CEIR; Also with J. P. Eckert; Richard Hamming; Fred Gruenberger; Thomas Barron, Shell Development Corp; Charles R. DeCarlo, Director of Education at IBM. Short sequence with R.G. Davis, founder of SF Mime Troupe.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1962
- By: KQED, NET Film Service,
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ComputerAndTheMindOfManP3TheUniversalMachine)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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