Giant brains; or, Machines that thinkBerkeley, Edmund Callis
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Giant brains; or, Machines that think
Berkeley, Edmund Callis
Computers -- Popular works
GOLDSTINE, HERMAN H., and JOHN VON
NEUMANN, _Planning and Coding of Problems
for an Electronic Computing Instrument_,
Princeton, N. J.: Institute for Advanced Study,
1947, 69 pp.
GOLDSTINE, HERMAN H., and JOHN VON
NEUMANN, _Planning and Coding of Problems
for an Electronic Computing Instrument_,
Princeton, N. J.: Institute for Advanced Study,
part 2, vol. 3, 1948, 23 pp.
MAUCHLY, JOHN W., Preparation of Problems for
Edvac-Type Machines, _Proceedings of a Symposium
on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery_,
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948,
pp. 203-207.
DIGITAL MACHINES—MISCELLANEOUS
Many of the following articles are nontechnical and contain much
interesting information about machines that think:
ALT, FRANZ L., New High-Speed Computing
Devices, _The American Statistician_, vol. 1,
no. 1, Aug. 1947, pp. 14-15.
BUSH, VANNEVAR, As We May Think, _Atlantic
Monthly_, July 1945, pp. 101-108.
CONDON, EDWARD U., _The Electronic Brain
Means a Better Future for You_ (broadcast),
Columbia Broadcasting System, Jan. 4, 1948.
DAVIS, HARRY M., Mathematical Machines,
_Scientific American_, vol. 180, no. 4,
Apr. 1949, pp. 29-39.
LAGEMANN, JOHN K., It All Adds Up,
_Collier’s Magazine_, May 31, 1947,
pp. 22-23 ...
LOCKE, E. L., Modern Calculators,
_Astounding Science Fiction_, vol. 52, no. 5,
Jan. 1949, pp. 87-106.
MACLAUGHLAN, LORNE, Electrical Mathematicians,
_Astounding Science Fiction_, vol. 53, no. 3,
May 1949, pp. 93-108.
MANN, MARTIN, Want to Buy a Brain? _Popular
Science_, vol. 154, no. 5, May 1949, pp. 148-152.
NEWMAN, JAMES R., Custom-Built Genius, _New
Republic_, June 23, 1947, pp. 14-18.
PFEIFFER, JOHN E., The Machine That Plays Gin
Rummy, _Science Illustrated_, vol. 4, no. 3,
Mar. 1949, pp. 46-48 ...
RIDENOUR, LOUIS N., Mechanical Brains,
_Fortune_, vol. 39, no. 5, May 1949,
pp. 108-118.
TUMBLESON, ROBERT C., Calculating Machines,
_Federal Science Progress_, June 1947, pp. 3-7.
ANONYMOUS, Almost Human, _Home Office
News_, Newark, N. J.: Prudential Insurance
Company of America, Feb. 1947, p. 8.
APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL MACHINES
Some of the problems that mechanical brains can solve, some of the
methods for controlling them to solve problems, and some of the
implications of mechanical brains for future problems are covered in
the following references:
Solving Problems
BERKELEY, EDMUND C., Electronic Machinery for
Handling Information, and its Uses in Insurance,
_Transactions of the Actuarial Society of
America_, vol. 48, May 1947, pp. 36-52.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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