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How to build an android : the true story of Philip K. Dick's robotic resurrection / David F. Dufty.
Van Pelt Library TJ211.15 .D84 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dufty, David F.
- Standardized Title:
- Lost in transit
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robotics--Popular works.
- Robotics.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Androids.
- Androids--Popular works.
- Artificial intelligence--Popular works.
- Dick, Philip K.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H. Holt, 2012.
- Summary:
- The stranger-than-fiction story of the creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Readers get a fascinating inside look at the scientists and technology that made this amazing android possible.
- Contents:
- A strange machine
- A tale of two researchers
- A meeting of minds
- A visit from Eva
- Simple robots
- The artist as scientist
- How to build a human head
- Life inside a laptop
- A California bungalow, 1974
- An android in Memphis
- First, we take Chicago
- Talking in Memphis
- A carnival of robots
- Brain malfunction
- Einstein, reincarnated
- Headless.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Lost in transit. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Pub., 2011.
- ISBN:
- 9780805095517
- 0805095519
- OCLC:
- 760974839
- Online:
- Cover image
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