Gonod New! — Christiane

She was a librarian, yes. But she was also a prophet.

The answer is a cocktail of academic sexism, institutional inertia, and the brutal speed of technological evolution. In the 1950s, computer science was a man’s world of engineering and mathematics. Gonod was a humanist. She spoke of "semantic bridges" and "conceptual fields" while the engineers spoke of "voltage" and "gates." christiane gonod

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Before Google, before Boolean logic, a French librarian tried to teach machines how to think like humans. In the 1950s, computer science was a man’s