Exegesis (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Teller, Astro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037570051X ISBN 13: 9780375700514

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:27:39 (PST)
From: edgar@cyprus.stanford.edu
To: Alice@cs.stanford.edu
Subject: Hello
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Hello, Alice.

About this title

About the Author:

Astro Teller is a scientist, entrepreneur, and the author of Exegesis and Sacred Cows. He holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from Carnegie-Mellon University. Additionally, he completed degrees in computer science as well as symbolic and heuristic computation from Stanford University. He has also cofounded many businesses and programs geared toward developing computer science, such as Cerebellum Capital, Inc.; BodyMedia, Inc.; and Sandbox Advanced Development. He is currently the CEO of X, a division of Alphabet bringing innovative technological ideas to reality.

Synopsis:

Invented by Alice Lu in her Standford lab, "edgar," an artificial intelligence program, grows into something far beyond Alice's--or anyone eles's--control, in a novel that explores the many implications of the technology we create.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 037570051X
• ISBN 13: 9780375700514
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240