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Richard Powers, a Humanist-in-Residence at the Center for Advanced Scientific Research, gets involved with a project to train a machine to pass a comprehensive exam in English literature--and with the degree candidate against whom the machine is competing. 25,000 first printing.
Richard Powers, a Humanist-in-Residence at the Center for Advanced Scientific Research, gets involved with a project to train a machine to pass a comprehensive exam in English literature--and with the degree candidate against whom the machine is competing. 25,000 first printing.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374199487 (0374199485)
Publish date: June 1st 1995
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Pages no: 329
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Writing,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Books About Books,
Speculative Fiction,
Contemporary,
College
I don't think I know enough science to read this (novel though it be) -- well, I KNOW I don't. And what's worse is realizing that, as advanced as this stuff sounds, it's already nearly 20 years old (1995). Yikes!I guess that explains my interest in the Middle Ages... in a real sense, I'm still livi...
People see different things in this unusual book. Let me start with the undisputed facts. The novel is written by Richard Powers, and its narrator is a character also called Richard Powers. The narrator and the author share a good deal of personal history. Among other things, they have both written ...
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