Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!ddsw1!olsa99!ctk1!chris From: chris@ctk1.UUCP (Chris Old) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Book re-request Message-ID: <1990Dec10.091345.7206@ctk1.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 90 09:13:45 GMT Organization: Tran Systems Lines: 53 About a 2 weeks ago, I posted a request for a book that I had read. In article <1990Nov28.131016.21665@ctk1.UUCP> I wrote: >I'm trying to find the title and authors of an AI book that I >read some time ago. > >The book was co-authored by two people. One of them had a >name like 'Donald Mitchie' or something like that. The name >of the book could have been 'Machine Intelligence'. > >It was a paperback, and had a dark cover with some >unrecognisable picture on the front. It contained some >examples of machine generated poetry, and had some glossy >pages in the middle with examples of computer art. > >It had an example of a monkey who had a physics book and a >pair of cutters and he had to try and cut some bananas down. >The book also spoke of some situations where it would be >neccesary to lie to robots, because that would make them more >efficient in their work. > >If you know of this book, could you please drop me a line. Now, nobody managed (if they tried) to get mail through to me, and I didn't see any follow-ups, except this one, >From: plummer@cs.swarthmore.edu (David Barker-Plummer) >Subject: Re: Book reference wanted >References: <1990Nov28.131016.21665@ctk1.UUCP> > <1990Nov30.014555.20466@cs.umn.edu> > > >Why stop at these. I think that there are 13--16 MI volumes, all edited >or co-edited by Michie. -- Dave which says to me that someone did follow-up, but that it didn't get through to me. Could some kind soul please email me the two articles: <1990Nov30.014555.20466@cs.umn.edu> Alternatively, please email me the answer to my original question. Please send email to: uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!ctk1!chris, or olsa99!ctk1!chris@ddsw1.mcs.com Thanks again, -------------------- Chris Old (C.t.K.) | ...uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!ctk1!chris | olsa99!ctk1!chris@ddsw1.mcs.com If you have no reason for your opinion, change it.