Thinking Machines Evolution Artificial by Pratt Vernon (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Faint (production) flaw on rear pastedown, dustwrapper slightly nicked. From the library of Hugh Whitemore, author of the Alan Turing play Breaking the Code (1986, adapted for television, 1996), with, loosely inserted, news-cuttings from Time (Robert Wright, "Can Machines Think?", 25 March 1996) and The Independent (Kenneth Owen interviews Professor Donald Michie); ticket of John Sandoe.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, 254 pages, index, illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xii, 254 pp; illustrations. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. first edition. Small quarto (approx. 6 7/8" wide by 9 7/8' tall), brown cloth covers, xii + 254 pages. Includes black and white illustrations, index. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. "Vernon Pratt places the emergence of artificial intelligence in its historical and conceptual context. By locating the shift of interest and ways of thinking that made 'artificial thought' conceivable in the seventeenth century, he traces the gradual evolution of the hardware that eventually was to support it from the inventions of Schickard and Pascal through those of Leibniz and Babbage to the modern von Neumann computer." Computers, Computing, Thinking Machines. 081006A.