The brain makers
by H. P. Newquist · first published 1994
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In no particular order: Sunburst and Luminary: an Apollo Memoir https://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html The Brain Makers https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Makers-HP-Newquist/dp/067230412... Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Computing-Machine-Intellige... The…
on “Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?” ↗HP Newquist, The Brain Makers from 1994. It matches my memories of the last AI boom quite well.
on “History of Lisp (1979) [pdf]” ↗The rivalry and sabotage are well docomented in the book 'The Brain Makers: The History of Artificial Intelligence – Genius, Ego, And Greed In The Quest For Machines That Think' by HP Newquist. A fairly good read even though the author has a very US centric view.
on “Frank Rosenblatt” ↗H.P. Newquist's "The Brain Makers: Genius, Ego, and Greed In The Search For Machines That Think" (1994) is a good book that centers on the second AI bubble (1980-1987) and its collapse. It is maybe a bit too focused on the companies and…
on “Please don't mention AI again” ↗…Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp Computer-Aided Financial Analysis (Miller) Probability, Statistics, and Queueing Theory (Allen) The Brain Makers Note that I sold off most of my library and regularly sell books once I am done reading them, so this is just a small sample of the material that you will not find online, that I have personally read.…
on “Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?” ↗…Principles of Neurodynamics (there was a time University Libraries sold out their inventories for peanuts, and you'd find these pearls amongst the trash). I still chuckle though at the anecdote in "The Brain Makers" book about the Blatt being used around the AI-Lab as a unit of body odor.
on “Frank Rosenblatt” ↗