The Age of Intelligent Machines

Ray Kurzweil, Raymond Kurzweil. MIT Press (MA), $45 (580pp) ISBN 978-0-262-61079-7

In a work the Association of American Publishers named the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990, Kurzweil and 23 other contributors explore the history and potential of artificial intelligence. Illustrated. (Mar.)

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