September 2004
Picking the President
The Univac introduced the public to computers with its 1952 election night forecast.
By Dan Cho
"Its awfully early, but Ill go out on a limb," read the printout, just above the prediction that the winner of the 1952 presidential election would be Dwight Eisenhower. Onlookers were skeptical, but with only 1 percent of the vote counted, the Universal Automatic Computerbetter known as Univachad calculated the winner.
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