The Turing Option by Harry Harrison & Marvin Minsky Warner Books 1992 1st printing
Title: The Turing Option
Author: Harry Harrison & Marvin Minsky
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Warner Books 1992
Edition: 1st printing
ISBN: 9780446515658
Size: 6 x 9 * 422 pages
Synopsis: From the jacket: What happens when man's highest technical achievement, the computer, is combined with the most highly evolved organ on the planet, the human brain? Can our brains be augmented with computer implants? Can we create machines that "reason" on their own? Now from America's foremost authority on artificial intelligence (AI) and one of the world's most highly acclaimed masters of science fiction comes the first thriller to portray state-of-the-art technology- and fully explore the possibilities of...THE TURING OPTION
Brian Delaney is a 24-year-old mathematics prodigy, a young genius on the edge of an incredible AI breakthrough when gunmen attack his lab and leave him for dead. Miraculously, he lives. Painstakingly, scientists reconstruct his brain with the very nerve reprogramming techniques and computer-human connections that Brian himself helped invent. Even so, he has no memory of the past ten years.
His challenge now is to regain his past and rediscover the scientific knowledge he lost before his enemies dare to strike again.
A thriller of hair-raising suspense that ranks with Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and Carl Sagan's Contact, THE TURING OPTION takes us to the furthest edge of today's computer technology. And opens the door to an exciting and frightening tomorrow.
Overall Condition: Gently read book in dust jacket; see images.
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