Artificial Intelligence historian Pamela McCorduck has died. Author of Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence and other seminal works, I had a request in to interview her for a number of projects but never heard back. Now I know why.
In a pitch for a Netflix show, my creative partner Briana Brownell and I drew from her fascinating interview with Lex Fridman, which I leave for you below, along with McCorduck’s New York Times obituary, a more thorough accounting of her achievements than I can offer.
The image above is from the 1994 Computer Bowl, a fundraiser for the Computer History Museum.