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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt;">I have a copy in my archives that I have read several times. It was influential in my erly career in getting me to think about Symbolic AI.</span>
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On 04/28/2023 10:19 AM Jonathan Coopersmith via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
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At this weekend's NYC antiquarian book show:
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="gmail-css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Today, the specter of artificial intelligence may rouse anxiety in the minds of the bookish sorts who pack the fair. But in his 1949 book “Giant Brains: Or, Machines That Think,” the American computer scientist Edmund Callis Berkeley struck a more upbeat note. “It seems to me,” he wrote, “that they will take a load off men’s minds as great as the load that printing took off men’s writing: a great burden lifted.” A first edition of Berkeley’s book is among the dozens of items included in “A.I.: The Hidden History,” a collection of books, documents and artifacts offered by Christian White Rare Books ($125,000). The collection includes material from leading figures like the mathematician Claude Shannon (known as the father of information theory) and the philosopher David Lewis, as well as from (ahem) women who were active in the field.</p>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Stay sane</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">,</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Jonathan Coopersmith</span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science</span>
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<a target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" href="https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/a-chief-skunk-looks-back/" rel="noopener">"A Chief Skunk Looks Back,"</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"> (interview with Sherm Mullin) </span><em style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Aerospace America</em><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000;"> March 2023 </span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a target="_blank" href="https://theconversation.com/its-taking-more-time-to-cast-a-ballot-in-us-elections-and-even-longer-for-black-and-hispanic-voters-191711" rel="noopener">It's taking longer to vote - especially if you are Black or Hispanic</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://theconversation.com/" rel="noopener">theconversation.com</a> </span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Preserving space archives: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/" rel="noopener">https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><em>FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine</em> (Johns Hopkins University Press) </span>
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