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- From: mlbm@lanl.gov (Mark Martinez)
- Subject: Anyone read "The Turing Option" yet?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.145115.8858@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Keywords: turing novel
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:51:15 GMT
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- Has anyone read "The Turing Option" by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky?
- Apparently it is a thriller about a fellow that develops a true AI and becomes
- the target of an assortment of villainous agencies who want it. Or something
- like that. I haven't seen it in any local bookstores yet but here is the LofC
- listing:
-
- Type of Material: Book
- LC Call Number: PS3558.A667 T88 1992
- Author: Harrison, Harry.
- Title: The turing option : a novel / by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky.
- Publication Info: New York : Warner Books, c1992.
- Phys. Description: 422 p. ; 24 cm.
- Other Names: Minsky, Marvin.
- LC Card Number: 91050396
- ISBN: 0-446-51565-5 : $21.95 ($26.95 Can.)
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- Mark Martinez
- mlbm@lanl.gov
-