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How to build an android : the true story of Philip K. Dick's robotic resurrection

Title
  1. How to build an android : the true story of Philip K. Dick's robotic resurrection / David F. Dufty.
Published by
  1. New York : H. Holt, 2012.
Supplementary content
  1. Cover image
Author
  1. Dufty, David F.

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Description
  1. 272 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. The stranger-than-fiction story of the creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Readers get a fascinating inside look at the scientists and technology that made this amazing android possible.
Uniform title
  1. Lost in transit
Alternative title
  1. Lost in transit
Subject
  1. Robotics > Popular works
  2. Androids > Popular works
  3. Dick, Philip K
  4. Artificial intelligence > Popular works
Contents
  1. A strange machine -- A tale of two researchers -- A meeting of minds -- A visit from Eva -- Simple robots -- The artist as scientist -- How to build a human head -- Life inside a laptop -- A California bungalow, 1974 -- An android in Memphis -- First, we take Chicago -- Talking in Memphis -- A carnival of robots -- Brain malfunction -- Einstein, reincarnated -- Headless.
Call number
  1. JSD 16-169
Note
  1. Originally published: Lost in transit. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Pub., 2011.
Author
  1. Dufty, David F.
Title
  1. How to build an android : the true story of Philip K. Dick's robotic resurrection / David F. Dufty.
Imprint
  1. New York : H. Holt, 2012.
Edition
  1. 1st U.S. ed.
Connect to:
  1. Cover image
LCCN
  1. 2011043674
ISBN
  1. 9780805095517
  2. 0805095519
Research call number
  1. JSD 16-169
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