Into the Heart of the Mind: An American Quest for Artificial Intelligence [Hardcover]

Frank Rose (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1984

Hardcover,First Edition and first printing. , Harper & Row, 1984, (Assummed), 209 pages. Fine condition F/F.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The efforts of researchers at the Uni versity of California, Berkeley, in early 1982 to program a computer to "think" makes "heady reading," commented PW. "This engrossing book," we add ed, "reports the activities and discus sions between the team leader, gradu ate students and younger associates involved in experiments with MOPs (Memory Organization Packets) and other techniques in the attempt to pro gram the government-funded comput er, Kim No-VAX." November
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 209 pages
• Publisher: Harper & Row; 1st edition (1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060153067
• ISBN-13: 978-0060153069
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,759,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Frank Rose is the author most recently of The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, published in 2011 in the U.S. and the U.K. by W.W. Norton. As a contributing editor at Wired, he has written extensively about the impact of technology on media and entertainment, covering such topics as the making of Avatar, the Year Zero alternate reality game, and the posthumous career of Philip K. Dick in Hollywood. He also contributes to Wired's Epicenter blog, the Tribeca Film Festival's Future of Film blog, and his own Deep Media blog. He has been a featured speaker at conferences ranging from the Guardian's Changing Media Summit in London to TEDx Transmedia in Rome, and he has participated in debates about the future of media at South by Southwest, the Cannes Film Festival, the Ars Electronica festival, and numerous other venues. He has lectured at several universities, including the Columbia Business School, the Columbia Journalism School, the NYU Graduate School of Journalism, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Before joining Wired in 1999, Frank worked as a contributing writer at Fortune, where he focused on the rise of global media conglomerates like Disney, Time Warner, and Vivendi. As a contributing editor at Esquire in the '80s, he documented the tribal rites of subcultures ranging from New Wave in New York to entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and the Village Voice, where he got his start covering the punk scene at CBGB in the 70s. His 1989 best-seller West of Eden, about the ouster of Steve Jobs from Apple, was named one of the ten best business books of the year by BusinessWeek and has recently been republished in an updated edition. He is also the author of The Agency, an unauthorized history of the oldest and at one time most successful talent agency in Hollywood.