“Nevertheless, the original Daisy Bell as relayed via an IBM computer – this meeting of music and machine –remains a bold and singular achievement, a profound leap into a brave new world ...

they taught the IBM 7094 to sing. The team – John L. Kelly Jr., Carol Lockbaum, and Lou Gerstman – chose a modest, even quaint song for their experiment: "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two ...

In 1961, the IBM 7094 was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" -- the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis. The song "Daisy Bell" was sung again by HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey". The first ...