BERKELEY, Edmund C.

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The Computer Revolution. First edition, signed by the author on the first blank. Berkeley's meditation on the "second industrial revolution" discusses the history of modern computing and the capacity of contemporary computers in war, social problems, work, and conversation. He considers whether computers could learn to think like humans and expresses alarm at the social implications he perceives.Berkeley (1909-1988) was an American computer scientist and co-founder of the Association for Computing Machinery. His first book Giant Brains, or Machines that Think (1949) played a large part in the popular depiction of the future of computing in the mid-20th century and contained the first description of a personal computer. The Computer Revolution followed the success of that publication.

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