Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | History |
---|---|
Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McCorduck, Pamela, 1940- Machines who think. Natick, Mass. : A.K. Peters, ©2004 (OCoLC)607075770 Online version: McCorduck, Pamela, 1940- Machines who think. Natick, Mass. : A.K. Peters, ©2004 (OCoLC)608876590 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pamela McCorduck |
ISBN: | 1568812051 9781568812052 |
OCLC Number: | 52197627 |
Description: | xxx, 565 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Time Line: The Mechanization of Thinking -- Beginnings -- Brass for Brain -- From Energy to Information -- The Machinery of Wisdom -- Meat Machines -- The Turning Point -- The Dartmouth Conference -- The Information-Processing Model -- Fun and Games -- Resistance -- Us and Them -- L'Affaire Dreyfus -- Realizations -- Robotics and General Intelligence -- Language, Scenes, Symbols, and Understanding -- Applied Artificial Intelligence -- The Tensions of Choice -- Can a Made-Up Mind Be Moral? -- Forging the Gods -- The Following Quarter-Century of Artificial Intelligence -- Timeline: The Evolution of Intelligence. |
Responsibility: | Pamela McCorduck. |
Abstract:
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
" my money, Machines Who Think continues to be the most reliable source on the first couple of decades."" -Herbert A. Simon, March 2004""If you are interested in how the pioneers of AI approached the problem of getting a machine to think like a human--a story told here with verve, wit, intelligence and perception--there is no better place to go than this book."" -John Casti, NATURE, April 2004""The enormous, if stealthy, influence of AI bears out many of the wonders foretold 25 years ago in Machines Who Think, Pamela McCorduck's groundbreaking survey of the history and prospects of the field.... [T]aken together, the original and the afterword form a rich and fascinating history."" -Scientific American, May 2004" Read more...

