Psychologist used crowdsourced pigeons to guide missiles

[nasu_dengaku]

http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=353

During World War II, behaviorist psychologist B F Skinner had an idea to to solve a serious problem facing the US military.  At that time, missiles were unguided and accuracy was low.  Since even rudimentary optoelectronic processing didn't exist back then, Skinner came up with the bright idea of training

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[easwaran]

I actually ran into this story some time not too long ago in a different context, but I don't remember what. It was probably actually an academic context talking about reasoning or decision theory or something else.

[tinkerbell_mk]

Thats strange, I just read the same fact this weekend. (In a book a friend in Mexico loaned me.)