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Article #319Re: Human Computers....
From: Angus H Rodgers
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 20:25
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 20:25
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In <Qez6sI200iVgI2bYwP@andrew.cmu.edu> Mark Alan Lang <Elistan+@CMU.EDU> writes: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.robotics: 7-Nov-92 Human Computers.... by >Eskinder Sahle@csgrad.cs pl.na nasa slab. >> Hello all: > Hi there! > >> I need some help.... I'm looking for examples in fiction literature >> of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL. That is, >> computers that talk and communicate like humans. I'm not so much >> interested in those instances where it's a robot that cannot be >> distinguished from a human being as in computers sounding human without >> being almost totally human-like.... . >> >> Thanks in advance. >> Ahmed "Michaelmas", by Algis Budrys? (Not quite sure of this reference.) -- Angus H. Rodgers (PhD student), | arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk Dept. of Computer Science, Queen | [ +44 | 0 ] 71 975 5241 Mary & Westfield College, Mile | "But what is contact? No two points End Rd., London E1 4NS, England | are in contact." -- A.N. Whitehead.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!sun-barr!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!qmw-dcs!arodgers From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers) Newsgroups: sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.robotics,comp.databases.theory,comp.theory Subject: Re: Human Computers.... Message-ID: <1992Nov8.202538.5470@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 8 Nov 92 20:25:38 GMT References: <Qez6sI200iVgI2bYwP@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: theorya.dcs.qmw.ac.uk