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Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think

by Edmund Callis Berkeley

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface — The Subject, Purpose, and Method of This Book
  2. 2Acknowledgments
  3. 3Chapter 1 — Can Machines Think? — What Is a Mechanical Brain?
  4. 4Chapter 2 — Languages: Systems for Handling Information
  5. 5Languages
  6. 6Schemes for Expressing Meanings
  7. 7Quantity of Information
  8. 8Physical Equipment for Handling Information
  9. 9Languages of Physical Objects
  10. 10The Crucial Devices for Mechanical Brains
  11. 11Chapter 3 — A Machine That Will Think: The Design of a Very Simple…
  12. 12Simon, the Very Simple Mechanical Brain
  13. 13Simon’s Flesh and Nerves — Representing Information
  14. 14Simon’s Mentality — Possible Range of Information
  15. 15Simon’s Memory — Storing Information
  16. 16The Control of Simon
  17. 17The Usefulness of Simon
  18. 18Simon’s Thinking — Transferring Information
  19. 19Simon’s Computing and Reasoning
  20. 20Putting Simon Together
  21. 21Chapter 4 — Counting Holes: Punch-Card Calculating Machines
  22. 22Origin and Development
  23. 23General Principles
  24. 24Types of Punch-Card Machines
  25. 25Handling Information
  26. 26Arithmetical Operations
  27. 27Logical Operations
  28. 28New Developments
  29. 29Chapter 5 — Measuring: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Diff…
  30. 30Analogue Machines
  31. 31Physical Quantities
  32. 32Differential Analyzer
  33. 33Differential Equations
  34. 34Physical Problems
  35. 35Solving Physical Problems
  36. 36Origin and Development of the Differential Analyzer
  37. 37General Organization of Mit Differential Analyzer No. 2
  38. 38Instructing the Mit — Differential Analyzer No. 2
  39. 39Answers
  40. 40How the Differential Analyzer Calculates
  41. 41An Appraisal of the Machine
  42. 42Chapter 6 — Accuracy to 23 Digits: Harvard’s Ibm Automatic Sequence…
  43. 43How Information Is Handled in the Machine
  44. 44Rapid Approximation for a Logarithm
  45. 45An Appraisal of the Calculator
  46. 46Chapter 7 — Speed — 5000 Additions a Second: Moore School’s Eniac —…
  47. 47Chapter 8 — Reliability — No Wrong Results: Bell Laboratories’ — Ge…
  48. 48Origin and Development
  49. 49Organization of the General-Purpose Computer
  50. 50How Information Goes Into the Machine
  51. 51How Information Comes — Out of the Machine
  52. 52How Information Is Manipulated in the Machine
  53. 53Problems
  54. 54An Appraisal of the Calculator
  55. 55Chapter 9 — Reasoning: The Kalin-Burkhart — Logical-Truth Calculator
  56. 56Truth
  57. 57Logical Truth
  58. 58Logical Patterns
  59. 59The Simplest Logical Patterns
  60. 60Calculation of Logical Truth
  61. 61Table 3
  62. 62Table 4
  63. 63Table 5
  64. 64Logical-Truth Calculation by Examining Cases and Reasoning
  65. 65Table 6
  66. 66Logical-Truth Calculation by Algebra
  67. 67Table 7
  68. 68Table 8
  69. 69Calculation of Circuits by the Algebra of Logic
  70. 70Table 9
  71. 71Table 10
  72. 72Logical-Truth Calculation by Machine
  73. 73Construction and Completion of the Kalin-Burkhart Logical-Truth Cal…
  74. 74General Organization of the Machine
  75. 75Units of the Machine
  76. 76Table 11
  77. 77How Information Goes Into the Machine
  78. 78Table 12
  79. 79Table 13
  80. 80How Information Comes Out of the Machine
  81. 81Table 14
  82. 82A Complete and Concrete Example
  83. 83Table 15
  84. 84Table 16
  85. 85Table 17
  86. 86An Appraisal of the Calculator
  87. 87Chapter 10 — An Excursion: The Future Design of Machines That Think
  88. 88What Existing Machines Have Proved
  89. 89New Devices for Handling Information
  90. 90New Operations
  91. 91New Ideas in Programming
  92. 92New Ideas in Reliability
  93. 93Auxiliary Devices
  94. 94Mechanical Brains Under Construction
  95. 95Chapter 11 — The Future: Machines That Think, and What They Might D…
  96. 96Chapter 12 — Social Control: Machines That Think and How Society Ma…
  97. 97Supplement 1 — Words and Ideas
  98. 98Words as Instruments for Explaining
  99. 99Set of Words for Explaining
  100. 100Understanding Ideas
  101. 101Supplement 2 — Mathematics
  102. 102Devices for Multiplication
  103. 103Binary or Two Numbers
  104. 104Biquinary or Two-Five Numbers
  105. 105Some Operations of Algebra
  106. 106Algebra of Logic
  107. 107Supplement 3 — References
  108. 108The Human Brain
  109. 109Mathematical Biophysics
  110. 110Languages: Words and Symbols for Thinking
  111. 111Languages: Machines for Thinking
  112. 112Punch-Card Calculating Machines
  113. 113Punch-Card Calculating Machinery: Applications
  114. 114The Differential Analyzer
  115. 115Harmonic Analyzers and Synthesizers
  116. 116Network Analyzers
  117. 117Machines for Solving Algebraic Equations
  118. 118Analogue Machines — Miscellaneous
  119. 119Harvard Ibm Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator
  120. 120Eniac, the Electronic Numeric — Integrator and Calculator
  121. 121Bell Laboratories Relay Computers
  122. 122The Kalin-Burkhart — Logical-Truth Calculator
  123. 123Other Digital Machines — Finished or Under Development
  124. 124The Design of Digital Machines
  125. 125Digital Machines — Miscellaneous
  126. 126Applications of Digital Machines

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