Building the Second Mind: 1956 and the Origins of Artificial Intelligence Computing

by Rebecca Skinner

Overview

Building the Second Mind: 1956 and the Origins of Artificial Intelligence Computing tells the history of the origins of AI. As the field that seeks to do things that would be considered intelligent if a human being did them, AI is a constant of human thought. Yet it was impossible until the digital computer was invented during WWII, and the field itself was not declared until 1956.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940033254187
Publisher:	Rebecca Skinner
Publication date:	05/07/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	866 KB

About the Author

Rebecca Elizabeth Skinner graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, and received a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory and a research associate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for five years, and taught in the Science, Technology, and Society unit at the School of Engineering. A Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley's Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, she lives in San Francisco.