Exploring the cultural results of the current high-tech revolution, an expert in artificial intelligence examines the effect of computers upon art, science, education, and medicine

T. S. Eliot: The Longer Poems: The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets

Computers & Technology

Pamela McCorduck

Computer Science

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

This is a popular interpretation of expert systems - computer models providing artificial intelligence to managers and businessmen - which are transforming business in the 1980s. The book gives an inside view of many international companies such as Canon, Westinghouse, IBM, Du Pont and others. Tom Peters is author of "Thriving on Chaos" and co-author of "In Search Of Excellence". Edward Feigenbaum is co-author with Pamela McCorduck of "The Fifth Generation".

The Rise of an Expert Company: How Visionary Companies Are Using Artifical Intelligence to Achieve Higher Productivity and Profits

Edward A. Feigenbaum

H. Penny Nii

Hardware & DIY

Pan/Macmillan

An internationally renowned scientist who fears she's taken one scientific risk too many; a distinguished archaeologist who's haunted by taking too few; a world famous financier who's lost everything except his money; an art gallery owner with a heartbreaking burden; a fugitive filmmaker; the head of a battered women's shelter--these are some of the people who find themselves at the end of the Old Santa Fe Trail at the end of the 20th century. Chance has brought them from all over to beautiful, legendary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they shape, illuminate, and even deform each other's lives unexpectedly, as if on the very edge of chaos. This edge of chaos, a scientific term for that slender territory between frozen predictability and hopeless disorder, is a dangerously unstable place. Learning and change can only happen there, but always under threat of sliding back to frozen order--or over into the chaotic abyss. And Santa Fe's sons and daughters, even now, keep a precarious foothold on The Edge of Chaos, bringing their own pasts and their city's rich history into an uncertain but exhilarating future.

The Edge of Chaos

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Sunstone Press

Contemporary

<p>When 9/11 occurs in faraway New York City, a group of privileged Santa Feans are deeply affected and struggle to keep their secrets hidden. An intergenerational struggle erupts, and the city's golden couple is forced to confront the cruelest meanings of the poem they've loved and read together, OParadise Lost."</p>

Bounded Rationality, A Novel

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