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- From: schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch)
- Subject: Re: Human Computers....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.133259.11072@phx.mcd.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, Az.
- References: <1992Nov4.175006.13719@quintus.com> <3739@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:32:59 GMT
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- In article <3739@creatures.cs.vt.edu> sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Eskinder Sahle) writes:
- >Hello all:
- >
- >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.... .
-
- Don't forget COLOSUS, the computer from "The Forbin Project". If you
- liked the movie, hit your local old book store and find the novel and
- its two sequals.
-
- John
-
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- | John R. Schuch - Motorola Computer Group - Manufacturing Engineering |
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