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>From: sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Eskinder Sahle)
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Subject: Human Computers....
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Hello all:

I need some help....  I'm looking for examples in fiction literature
of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL. That is,
computers that talk and communicate like humans.  I'm not so much 
interested in those instances where it's a robot that cannot be
distinguished from a human being as in computers sounding human without
being almost totally human-like....  .

Thanks in advance.
Ahmed 


