Main entry:

Tzonis, Alexander.

Title & Author:

Hermes and the golden thinking machine / Alexander Tzonis.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1990.

Description:

xiv, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284).
Acknowledgments -- The cast -- Chapter Zero -- A Memorial Day in Cambridge -- Over the Atlantic: Robert -- The house with green shutters -- The apartment -- The telephone call -- The first interview -- Summer flu -- The cousin's deal -- The professor problem-solver -- Registering at the institute -- Lobby to the telexroom -- Hill climbing on flat ground, with a lesson in pruning -- The lawyer -- The philosopher of photography: Donald -- Reducing differences -- The cinnamon man: Gerald -- The cable -- A second interview -- Return to Psychiko: Euridice deserted -- The medium -- Accident on the highway -- An interesting party -- A late dinner at the Zephyros -- Preparations for departure -- A third interview -- At the Rio -- Zephyros revisited -- The medium once more -- Santorini -- Polar star -- The cook vanishes -- Nets, frames, stardust -- Moneybags wind -- Athenian heat -- Circumscription -- Old friends -- A fourth interview -- A conscientious driver -- Sherlock 2000 II uses Ariadne's thread -- A medium's memory palace -- Against the rules -- The trench coat -- Blades, handles, and fur cups -- An emergency meeting -- Breaking the code -- All wrapped up -- Meltdown -- At the airport -- Final interview -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic postscript.

Summary:

A witty fast-paced mystery that combines suspense with concepts from the emerging field of artificial intelligence.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262200767
9780262200769

Subject:

Artificial intelligence.
Intelligence artificielle.
artificial intelligence.
Künstliche Intelligenz
Belletristische Darstellung
English fiction
United States

Form/genre:

Fiction
Romans.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 56986
Call No.: ID:90-B5295
Status: Available