HAL'S LEGACY. 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality.
by Stork, David G., Edited by. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke
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Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, (c. 1997). first edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Small quarto (approx. 8 1/4" wide by 9 1/4" tall). Includes many illustrations, index. Black cloth covers, xxi [1] 384 pages. Book and dust jacket are in Fine ondition. Contributions by leading scientists that look at technologies that would be critical if we were, as Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik imagined...to try to build HAL. Contributors include: Murray S. Campbell, Daniel C. Dennett, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Marvin Minsky, Donald A. Norman, Joseph P. Olive, Rosalind W. Picard, Azriel Rosenfeld, Roger C. Schank, David G. Stork, David E. Wilkins, and Stephan Wolfram. 2001 has come and gone an HAL doesn't seem far-fetched at all. Film, Computing, Science Fiction. 082504B
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- Alkahest Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000021072
- Title
- HAL'S LEGACY. 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality.
- Author
- Stork, David G., Edited by. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Mass.
- Date Published
- (c. 1997)
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