Pamela Ann McCorduck was a British-born American author of books about the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, and the role of women and technology. She also wrote three novels. She contributed to Omni, The New York Times, Daedalus, and the Michigan Quarterly Review, and was a contributing editor of Wired. She was a former vice president of the PEN American Center. She was married to computer scientist and academic Joseph F. Traub.
Across 1 conversation, Pamela McCorduck ranges across AI winter, algorithmic AI, history of AI. Pamela McCorduck's book 'Machines Who Think' was a pioneering exploration of AI's mythological and philosophical roots, published in 1979. AI's foundational figures, like Newell and Simon, demonstrated early practical applications at the 1956 Dartmouth conference with The Logic Theorist.
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