A leading contributor to artificial intelligence offers insight into the numerous ways in which the mind works to demonstrate how emotions and feelings are just different ways of thinking, in an account that poses controversial ideas about the potential for designing machines that are capable of thinking like humans. By the author of The Society of Mind. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Based on the PBS television special, great scientific minds explain advances in their fields, including paleontology, viruses, evolution, oceanography, astronomy, and artificial intelligence, as well as their own personal insights and enlightenments. Book available.

After gunman storm his high-security laboratory and put a bullet in his head, Brian Delaney reconstructs himself with the nerve reprogramming techniques that he invented and sets out to regain the scientific knowledge he has lost. Reprint. NYT. K.

The world's foremost authority on artificial intelligence is shot by terrorists, and it is up to a brilliant surgeon to reconstruct the scientist's brain using the research he pioneered. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.

Product Description: Perceptrons - the first systematic study of parallelism in computation - has remained a classical work on threshold automata networks for nearly two decades. It marked a historical turn in artificial intelligence, and it is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the connectionist counterrevolution that is going on today...read more

An authority on artificial intelligence introduces a theory that explores the workings of the human mind and the mysteries of thought (view table of contents)

Looks at the prospects for robots used in heavy industry, as house servants and aids for the handicapped, and speculates on what life with androids will be like

Looks at the prospects for robots used in heavy industry, as house servants and aids for the handicapped, and speculates on what life with androids will be like