Author Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929-

Title Science observed : essays out of my mind / Jeremy Bernstein.

Imprint New York : Basic Books, c1982.
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  Q175.3 .B47 1982  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 376 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 352-353.
Note Includes index.
Contents Mind and machine : profile of Marvin Minsky. A once and future hacker -- About intelligent machines -- Programming intelligence -- Science observed. The need to know -- I am this whole world : Erwin Schrödinger -- Einstein and company : the philosophy of science -- Robert Oppenheimer -- Nuclear research : shooting the pussycat -- Topless in Hamburg -- Time -- Furth's reactor and fusion -- Can TV really teach science? -- Out of my mind : entertainments, serious and otherwise. How about a little game? Stanley Kubrick -- Scientific cranks : how to recognize one and what to do until the doctor arrives -- Bubble and squeak -- A cosmic flow -- "A.I.".
Subject(s) Science -- Philosophy.
Minsky, Marvin Lee, 1927-
Artificial intelligence.