Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence

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Pamela McCorduck Cli Cfe

Machines Who Think

A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence

Pamela McCorduck, Cli Cfe

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English

A K Peters
17 March 2004

History of science; Artificial intelligence

This book is a history of artificial intelligence, that audacious effort to duplicate in an artifact what we consider to be our most important property—our intelligence. It is an invitation for anybody with an interest in the future of the human race to participate in the inquiry.

By: Pamela McCorduck, Cli Cfe
Imprint: A K Peters
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9781568812052
ISBN 10: 1568812051
Pages: 598
Publication Date: 17 March 2004
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword -- Preface -- Time Line: The Mechanization of Thinking -- Part I Beginnings -- Part II The Turning Point -- Part III Resistance -- Part IV Realizations -- Part V The Tensions of Choice -- Part V Afterword -- Timeline: The Evolution of Intelligence -- Bibliography -- Index.

McCorduck , Pamela

Reviews for Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence

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