Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine That Fooled the World

Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine That Fooled the World image
ISBN-10:

014029919X

ISBN-13:

9780140299199

Author(s): Standage, Tom
Released: Jan 01, 2004
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
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Description:

This title tells the story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links a cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the relationship between magic, man, mind and machine.

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