Company:Simulmatics Corporation
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Short description: American former data science firm
| Founded | February 18, 1959 in New York City , USA |
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The Simulmatics Corporation was a U.S. data science firm founded in 1959 that used algorithms to target voters and consumers.[1][2][3] One of its leading figures was Ithiel de Sola Pool.
Professor of American History at Harvard University Jill Lepore wrote a book about the Simulmatics Corporation, titled If Then, in 2020,[4] and recorded an audio version broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2021.[5]
The political novel The 480 contains a fictional treatment of the Simulmatics Corporation's activities.[6]
References
- ↑ Lepore, Jill (July 27, 2020). "How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future" (in en-us). The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-the-simulmatics-corporation-invented-the-future. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ↑ Lepore, Jill (2020). If, Then: how the Simulmatics corporation invented the future.. ISBN 978-1-5293-8616-5. OCLC 1137820131.
- ↑ Pool, Ithiel De Sola; Abelson, Robert (1961). "The Simulmatics Project". The Public Opinion Quarterly 25 (2): 167–183. doi:10.1086/267012. ISSN 0033-362X.
- ↑ Bond, Shannon (September 14, 2020). "Long Before Cambridge Analytica And Facebook, Simulmatics Linked Data And Politics" (in en). https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912644819/long-before-cambridge-analytica-and-facebook-simulmatics-linked-data-and-politic.
- ↑ "If Then by Jill Lepore". BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r35p.
- ↑ "If Computers Called the Tune; THE 480. By Eugene Burdick. 313 pp. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Campany. $5." (in en-US). The New York Times. 1964-06-28. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/28/archives/if-computers-called-the-tune-the-480-by-eugene-burdick-313-pp-new.html.
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