In the Time of Jim Williams: The Story of the First Artificial Intelligence

It is odd to think that hundreds of years from now when the chapter is written summarizing the turn of the second millennium, the title of the chapter might very well be In the Time of Jim Williams, with a set of short footnotes on the last page summarizing the discovery of relativity, the landing on the moon, and the creation of the atomic bomb.

From now until the end of time, every human being will know that name, the name of the first person to create life from nothing. I can still remem...