Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY)
by Weizenbaum, Joseph
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0716704641
- ISBN 13
- 9780716704645
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976 First Printing (full # line) in original $9.95-priced dust jacket, Review Copy with publisher letter/material laid in & Review tag tacked to front endpaper, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages clean & unfoxed, jacket shows only the slightest of edge wear, strip of offsetting to front endpaper from laid-in materials, else Fine unread copy from the personal collection of computer pioneer Willis H. Ware, a prescient analysis of the shortcomings of vision exhibited by the then-nascent computer/AI cognoscenti (and still relevant today), penned in the infancy of the tech revolution by one of their own - quite scarce (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; (xii) 300pp indexed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.
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- Bookseller
- Nighttown Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32635
- Title
- Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY)
- Author
- Weizenbaum, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0716704641
- ISBN 13
- 9780716704645
- Publisher
- W. H. Freeman and Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Computer Power And Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation [On Tools; Where The Power Of The Computer Comes From; How Computers Work; Science And The Compulsive Programmer; Theories And Models; Computer Models In Psychology; The Computer And Natural La
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