What Was "Pandemonium

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Multiple Choice

What was "Pandemonium"?

• A) an early computer program that used connectionist processing to "learn" how to perform pattern recognition of letters
• B) the annoying computer "noise" that occurred when too much information was being processed at one time
• C) an early computer program developed by health researchers to analyze information about pandemics
• D) a computer program that simulated the operations of a Turing machine

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