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Article: McCorduck's Machines Who Think after twenty-five years: revisiting the origins of AI.(Book Review)
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- AI Magazine
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- January 1, 2003
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* Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospect of Artificial Intelligence, Pamela McCorduck, San Francisco, California, Freeman, 1979, 375 pp., ISBN 0-7167-11135-4.
Over the course of the last half-century, a number of books have sought to explain AI to a larger audience and many more devoted to writing the formal history of AI. It is a tribute to her powers of observation and her conversational style that none has really proven more successful than Pamela McCorduck's Machines Who Think, (1) now approaching the quarter-century mark. Currently, it is the first source cited on the AI Topics web site on the history of AI. Based on extensive ...