Machines who think : a personal inquiry into the history and prospects of artificial intelligence /...
Machines who think : a personal inquiry into the history and prospects of artificial intelligence /...
Machines who think : a personal inquiry into the history and prospects of artificial intelligence / Pamela McCorduck.
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Natick, Mass. : A.K. Peters, c2004.
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T0375339
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English
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xxx, 565 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Time Line: The Mechanization of Thinking -- Pt. I. Beginnings -- 1. Brass for Brain -- 2. From Energy to Information -- 3. The Machinery of Wisdom -- 4. Meat Machines -- Pt. II. The Turning Point -- 5. The Dartmouth Conference -- 6. The Information-Processing Model -- 7. Fun and Games -- Pt. III. Re...
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Publisher
Natick, Mass. : A.K. Peters, c2004.
Edition
25th anniversary update.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2004.
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"Pamela McCorduck first went among the artificial intelligentsia when the field was fresh and new, and asked the scientists engaged in it what they were doing and why. She saw artificial intelligence as the scientific apotheosis of one of the most enduring, glorious, often amusing, and sometimes alarming, traditions of human culture: the endless fa...
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Machines who think : a personal inquiry into the history and prospects of artificial intelligence / Pamela McCorduck.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-545) and index.
Transferred from N006.309/3.
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c2004.
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T0375339
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1568812051
9781568812052
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006.309
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991018359839702626
