Ira Chinoy

Gebundenes Buch

Predicting the Winner

The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting

Beschreibung

Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when computers were used for the first time to predict winners from early returns and the results were launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television.  

Autor

Ira Chinoy is an associate professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he founded and directs the Future of Information Alliance. He is a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, where he also served as director of computer-assisted reporting. Chinoy was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and has won the George Polk Award and other top journalism awards.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 162mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9781640125964
• ISBN-10: 1640125965
• Artikelnr.: 67864514