| Video Title:
| Recollections of early AI in Britain: 1942 - 1965. An interview with Professor Donald Michie
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| Description:
| Video for the BCS Computer Conservation Society's October 2002 Conference on the history of AI in Britain. a/k/a Recollections of the Pioneers. "Q: What was your earliest contact with the idea of intelligent machinery? A: Arriving at Bletchley Park in 1942 I formed a friendship with Alan Turing, and in April 1943 with Jack Good. The three of us formed a sort of discussion club focused around Turing's astonishing 'child machine' concept. Hisproposal was to use our knowledge of how the brain acquires its intelligence as a model for designing a teachable intelligent machine."
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| Date of Video:
| September, 2002
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| Color. Sound. Length (min:sec): 34:58.
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| Copyright Info:
| contact Austin Tate > a.tate@ed.ac.uk or George Davis > georgedavis@bcs.org.uk
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| Location of Original:
| AIAI or BCS ?
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Versions: Quicktime & Realmedia Transcript
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| Contributor:
| Jon Glick
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