Title :
Computers and Thought—The Back Story
Author_Institution :
Inf. & Comput. Sci. Program, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
fDate :
4/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This issue of Anecdotes gives a some of the back story behind the classic computer science and AI text Computers and Thought. One of the book´s coeditors, Julian Feldman, describes some of their reasons for publishing the book and some of the challenges involved in its actually publication. This Anecdotes installment also gives a brief history of the first business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications in the UK in the 1980s, which presaged today´s Internet-based home shopping industry.
Keywords :
Internet; artificial intelligence; business data processing; home shopping; Internet-based home shopping industry; United Kingdom; artificial intelligence; business-to-business application; business-to-consumer application; computer science; computers and thought; Computers and Thought; Edward Feigenbaum; Julian Feldman; Prestel; ROCC Computers; Redifon; Teleputers; history of computing; online shopping; videotext;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2011.69
