Machine intelligence and related topics: an information scientist's weekend book

An introduction to conversational computing -- The Bletchley machines -- Turing and the origins of the computer -- Bayes, Turing and the logic of corroboration -- Heuristic search -- King and rook against king -- Chess with computers -- Amplifying intelligence by machine -- The death of paper -- Clever or intelligent? -- The intelligent machine -- Teaching a computer to 'see' -- Artificial intelligence in the micro age -- Expert systems -- Life with intelligent machines -- Machine intelligence in the cycle shed -- Pillars of the tabernacle -- Peer review and the bureaucracy -- Song and dance story -- Scientific advice to governments -- Understanding the machine -- Man's future in the knowledge game -- The only way out of the economic pit? -- Pressing the fun button -- Beware SCUM- the Society for Cutting Up Machine-makers -- The human interface -- The social aspects of artificial intelligence. xi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. First edition, first printing. Printed boards, slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding, review copy slip loosely inserted. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…