Machines That Think is a compilation of 29 science fiction stories probing the scientific, spiritual, and moral facets of computers and robots and speculating...

sophisticated electrical machines did specialized analog calculations in the early 20th century. The first digital electronic calculating machines were developed...

Turing's paper considers the question "Can machines think?" Turing says that since the words "think" and "machine" cannot be clearly defined, we should "replace...

from "Can machines think?" to "Can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?" The advantage of the new question, Turing argues, is that it draws...

creating machines that think. In the paper, he noted that "thinking" is difficult to define and devised his famous Turing Test: If a machine could carry...

publication of his book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think in which he described the principles behind computing machines (called then "mechanical brains",...

or serendipity machines. In the case of the Biblio-Mat, the insertion of a two-dollar coin or "toonie" (now a token), prompts the machine to randomly select...

hardware companies like Symbolics and LISP Machines Inc. who built specialized computers, called LISP machines, that were optimized to process the programming...

12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1981), edited by Jim Wynorski. Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories...

intelligence. Timeline of machine translation Timeline of machine learning Please see Mechanical calculator#Other calculating machines Please see: Pascal's...