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>From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
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Subject: Re: Human Computers....
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Date: 8 Nov 92 20:25:38 GMT
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Mark Alan Lang <Elistan+@CMU.EDU> writes:

>Excerpts from netnews.comp.robotics: 7-Nov-92 Human Computers.... by
>Eskinder Sahle@csgrad.cs pl.na nasa slab. 
>> Hello all:

>	Hi there!
>  
>> 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 

"Michaelmas", by Algis Budrys? (Not quite sure of this reference.)
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