Sad news. RIP, Ms. McCorduck. The result was “Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence” (1979), a chron

Sad news. RIP, Ms. McCorduck. The result was “Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence” (1979), a chronicle of past attempts to mechanize thought. I was first introduced to her name when I read a book she co-wrote along with Ed Feigenbaum - The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World[1]. It took me a while to later realize that she also wrote another book that was sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. That being Machines Who Think. I feel a bit sad now in acknowledging that the book is still sitting there waiting to be read. :-( [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intelligence-Challenge/dp/0201115190 https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige...