Editing IBM 701 (section)

== Social impact ==
In 1952, IBM paired with language scholars from [[Georgetown University]] to develop translation software for use on computers. On January 7, 1954, the team developed an experimental software program that allowed the IBM 701 computer to translate from Russian to English. This was the [[Georgetown–IBM experiment]]. The Mark 1 Translating Device, which was developed for the US Air Force, was able to produce its first automated Russian-to-English translation in 1959 and was shown to the public in 1964.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=The IBM 700 Series: Cultural Impacts|url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/ibm700series/impacts/|access-date=30 July 2022|website=IBM|date=7 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105090505/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/ibm700series/impacts/|archive-date=5 January 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1954, a group of scientists ran millions of simulated hands of [[blackjack]] on an IBM 701 looking to determine the best playing decision for every combination of cards. The result of the study was the set of correct rules for hitting, standing, doubling or splitting in a blackjack game which are still the same today.<ref name=":1" />

The IBM 701 has a claim to be the first computer displaying the potential of [[artificial intelligence]] in [[Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)|Arthur Samuel]]'s [[checkers]]-playing program on February 24, 1956. The program, which was developed for play on the IBM 701, was demonstrated to the public on television. Self-proclaimed checkers master Robert Nealey played the game on an IBM 7094 computer in 1962 and the computer won. It is still considered a milestone for artificial intelligence and it offered the public during the early 1960s an example of the capabilities of an electronic computer.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ed Feigenbaum|author2=Gio Wiederhold|author3=John McCarthy|year=1990|title=Memorial Resolution: Arthur L. Samuel|publisher=[[Stanford University]] Historical Society|url=http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SamuelA.pdf|url-status=dead|access-date=April 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526195107/http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SamuelA.pdf|archive-date=May 26, 2011}}</ref>

The [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory|University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore]]  developed a language compilation and runtime system called the [[KOMPILER]] for their IBM 701. [[Speedcoding|Speedcode]] was the first [[high-level programming language]] created for an [[IBM]] computer. The language was developed by [[John Backus]] in 1953 for the IBM 701 to support computation with [[floating-point numbers]]. The [[Fortran]] compiler also developed by Backus was not released by IBM until the [[IBM 704]].