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Started by Mark Alan Lang
Sun, 08 Nov 1992 01:32
Re: Human Computers....
Author: Mark Alan Lang
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 01:32
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 01:32
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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 You might want to check out a book called _When H.A.R.L.I.E Was One, Release 2.0_ by David Gerrold. Very good as both a science-fiction story and as a speculative paper about the future of computers, IMHO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mark Lang | ml5t+@andrew.cmu.edu | | elistan+@cmu.edu | elistan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Re: Human Computers....
Author: Melissa N. Matusevich
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 03:08
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 03:08
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How about Adam's _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_?
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Melissa Matusevich
mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu
Re: Human Computers....
Author: 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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