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From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: Re: AI biographies
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Date: 17 Oct 89 18:18:16 GMT
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In article <73509@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes:
>In article <14924@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> horse@ai.mit.edu
>(Michael A. de la Maza) writes:
>
> > Where can I get biographical or autobiographical information on these
> > AI scientists and others like them?
>
>I recommend _Machines Who Think_ by Pamela McCorduck, _The Tomorrow
>Makers_ by Grant Fjermedal, and _Apprentices of Wonder: Inside the
>Neural Network Revolution_ by Richard Allman.
>
>--Barry Kort


I am surprised to see no mention of Jeremy Bernstein's profile of Marvin Minsky
which appeared in the December 14, 1981 issue of THE NEW YORKER.  Does anyone
know if it has been incorporated into a book?

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