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- From: john@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (John A. Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
- Subject: Re: computers in literature
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.053443.23231@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 05:34:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mikejag.1992Nov10.053443.23231
- References: <1992Nov9.124847.9972@athena.cs.uga.edu> <9NOV199215281054@adpdp2.lanl.gov>
- Organization: mikejag (mike) is a private system in Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- In article <9NOV199215281054@adpdp2.lanl.gov> 108116@adpdp2.lanl.gov (108116) writes:
- >Be sure to check-out "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by R. Heinlein. It will by in
- >Sci. FIc. To me, it's the best description of computer potential in literature.
-
- Darn; it's been a while since I read "The Man Who Sold the Moon", but
- I can't remember there being a computer in it.
-
- Another book by Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", has my all
- time favourite computer in it, "Mike". (Note the name of my system *8-)
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- Mike was a computer on the moon that got so big that it got to be
- sentient.
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- Isn't there a project somewhere in the States where they are working on
- AI by using the same sort of idea? They just keep feeding this huge
- computer all kinds of data all day, every day, let it chug away at night
- to draw conclusions, and then they analyze the conclusions that it drew.
-
- Does anyone know of any information about this project is available
- anywhere on The Net?
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- john@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca Vancouver, Canada
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