EVIDENCE NETWORK / SIX OBJECTS, SEVEN PATHS

Trace the record, not the aura.

Six existing objects reveal seven published source paths. The network keeps the object, its record, and the museum's interpretation separate—and makes thin evidence visible instead of hiding it behind a footnote.

06museum objects
07source identities
07documented paths
01objects with multiple paths

READ THE CONNECTION, NOT A SCORE

What can each museum object actually point back to?

Every line is generated from an approved object's primary or role-labelled supporting source. Line count is evidence coverage in this public release—not a truth score, consensus measure, or causal history.

Diagram of museum objects connected to their published source records Every line is generated from an approved object's primary or role-labelled supporting source. Line count is evidence coverage in this public release—not a truth score, consensus measure, or causal history. BUILT THINGSMETHODS ON PAPERPUBLIC INTERFACE OBJECT / 01 1958 Electronic NeuralNetwork, Mark I Perc… OBJECT / 02 1969 Shakey OBJECT / 03 1943 A logical calculus ofthe ideas immanent i… OBJECT / 04 1986 Learningrepresentations by b… OBJECT / 05 2017 Attention Is All YouNeed OBJECT / 06 2022 Introducing ChatGPT SOURCE / 01 National Museum ofAmerican History,… SOURCE / 02 Computer HistoryMuseum SOURCE / 03 Computer HistoryMuseum SOURCE / 04 The Bulletin ofMathematical Biop… SOURCE / 05 Nature SOURCE / 06 arXiv SOURCE / 07 OpenAI
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CONNECTION LEDGER

Follow every line to its record.

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Built things

Catalogue records describe material objects; a separate exhibition page may add a dated display-status path.

  1. AIM-EQP-1958-001

    Electronic Neural Network, Mark I Perceptron

    Study the object
    1. Primary object record
      Electronic Neural Network, Mark I Perceptron

      National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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      tier
      Institutional archive
      display rights
      Metadata + commentary only
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Methods on paper

A paper records a particular formulation at a particular date; the line does not claim that later systems inevitably followed it.

  1. AIM-DOC-1943-001

    A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

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    1. Primary object record
      A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

      The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, Springer Nature

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      tier
      Primary source
      display rights
      Metadata + commentary only
  2. AIM-DOC-1986-001

    Learning representations by back-propagating errors

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    1. Primary object record
      Learning representations by back-propagating errors

      Nature

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      tier
      Primary source
      display rights
      Metadata + commentary only
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Public interface

A launch record shows what was presented publicly on that date, not how every later version behaved.