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- catalog abstract "Imagine, if you will, one stormy summer evening in 1949, as novelist and scientist C.P. Snow, Britain's distinguished wartime science advisor and author of The Two Cultures, invites four singular guests to a sumptuous seven-course dinner at his alma mater, Christ's College, Cambridge, to discuss one of the emerging scientific issues of the day: Can we build a machine that could duplicate human cognitive processes? The distinguished guest list for Snow's dinner consists of physicist Erwin Schrodinger, inventor of wave mechanics; Ludwig Wittgenstein, the famous twentieth-century philosopher of language, who posited two completely contradictory theories of human thought in his lifetime; population geneticist/science popularizer J.B.S. Haldane; and Alan Turing, the mathematician/codebreaker who formulated the computing scheme that foreshadowed the logical structure of all modern computers. Capturing not only their unique personalities but also their particular stands on this fascinating issue, Casti dramatically shows what each of these great men might have argued about artificial intelligence, had they actually gathered for dinner that midsummer evening.".
- catalog contributor b10748875.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Haldane; and Alan Turing, the mathematician/codebreaker who formulated the computing scheme that foreshadowed the logical structure of all modern computers. Capturing not only their unique personalities but also their particular stands on this fascinating issue, Casti dramatically shows what each of these great men might have argued about artificial intelligence, had they actually gathered for dinner that midsummer evening.".
- catalog description "Imagine, if you will, one stormy summer evening in 1949, as novelist and scientist C.P. Snow, Britain's distinguished wartime science advisor and author of The Two Cultures, invites four singular guests to a sumptuous seven-course dinner at his alma mater, Christ's College, Cambridge, to discuss one of the emerging scientific issues of the day: Can we build a machine that could duplicate human cognitive processes? The distinguished guest list for Snow's dinner consists of physicist Erwin Schrodinger, inventor of wave mechanics; Ludwig Wittgenstein, the famous twentieth-century philosopher of language, who posited two completely contradictory theories of human thought in his lifetime; population geneticist/science popularizer J.B.S.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 181 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Cambridge quintet.".
- catalog identifier "0201328283 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cambridge quintet.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley,".
- catalog relation "Cambridge quintet.".
- catalog subject "006.3/01 21".
- catalog subject "Artificial intelligence Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy of mind.".
- catalog subject "Q335 .C375 1998".
- catalog title "The Cambridge quintet : a work of scientific speculation / John L. Casti.".
- catalog type "text".