Summary
Charles Forbin has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to the construction of his own supercomputer, Colossus, rejecting romantic and social endeavours in order to create the United States’ very first Artificially Intelligent defence system.
But Colossus soon exceeds even Forbin’s calculated expectations, learning to think independently of the Colossus Programming Office, processing data over 100 times faster than Forbin and his team had originally anticipated.
The Preside…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473228214 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473228212 |
| Author: | D.F. Jones |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gateway |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
D.F. Jones
D F Jones (1917-1981)
Dennis Feltham Jones was a British science fiction author and a naval commander during World War II and lived in Cornwall.
His first novel, Colossus (1966), about a defence super computer which uses its control over nuclear weapons to subjugate humankind, was made into the feature film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).
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