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- From: giber@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Carolyn Giberson)
- Subject: Re: computers in literature
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.124847.9972@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Originator: giber@pollux
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- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:48:47 GMT
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- Article: 575 of comp.databases.theory
- Subject: Human Computers....
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- >Hello all:
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- >I need some help.... I'm looking for examples in fiction literature
- >of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL. That is,
- >computers that talk and communicate like humans. I'm not so much
- >interested in those instances where it's a robot that cannot be
- >distinguished from a human being as in computers sounding human without
- >being almost totally human-like.... .
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- >Thanks in advance.
- >Ahmed
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- You might want to check out "The Ship Who Sang" by Anne McCaffrey.
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- Carolyn Giberson
- University of Georgia
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