Readership: Popular science readers and academics in the fields of articificial intelligence, computing, biology, and genetics. Also of interest to those familar with Donald Michie's work.
Ashwin Srinivasan, IBM India Research Laboratory
"The book is certainly a valuable resource for the histories of Colossus." - Ernest Davis, Times Literary Supplement
Foreword Editor's Note A Lifetime in a Minute Acknowledgements Machines and Machine Intelligence The Beginning Colossus and the Breaking of the Wartime "Fish" codes Turing's Vision Early Promise Machines That Can Play Games Where Britain Lags Behind Edinburgh Will Set the Pace Amplifying Intelligence by Machine Clever or Intelligent? Lighthill and After Machine Intelligence in the Cycle Shed Response to Lighthill Computer Chess an the Humanization of Technology Slaughter on 7th Avenue Human Window on the World The Turing Institute Rules from Brains Consciousness, Turing's Test and the Child Machine Turing's Test and Conscious Thought "Strong AI": An Adolescent Disorder It Takes Two to Tango Return of the Imitation Game Biology Maternal Inheritance in Mice Superpregnancy in Mice Studies on the Transfer of Fertilized Mouse Eggs Transplantation Biology Embryo Selection for Human IVF Thinking about Thinking In Conversation 50 Years after Breaking the Codes Secrets of Colossus Revealed Recollections of Early AI in Britain Tokyo-Edinburgh Dialogue "From Our Science Correspondent" On Keeping Mice The last liger Archbishop Among the Test-Tubes There's no such thing as a "Superior" Race Nature v. nurture Song and Dance story Scientific Advice to Governments Keeping one jump ahead What they Read and Why ]: Sciencemanship Peace and Goodwill The Tramp's Charter Descent into Unreason Bibliography Selected Publications in Biology Selected Publications in Computer Science Books Web Links