Morris J.H. Thoughts of a Reformed Computer Scientist: On the Nature of Real and Artificial Intelligence

Jame H. Morris, 2021. — 358 p.What were we thinking as we created the computer revolution? Was it good for humanity?
Thoughts of a Reformed Computer Scientist is a search for intelligence across multiple facets of the human condition—religion and science, evolution, and innovation.
Jim Morris’s memoir covers his sixty-year career in computer science and weaves the reader through the complex land of computer technology and the nuanced world of human behavior. From his days as a student, a professor, and an innovator at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Xerox PARC to recent AI advances Morris describes his work and his enthusiasms along with several Turing Award winners and tech entrepreneurs and ultimately asks us to ponder what they were thinking as they created the computer revolution.Prologue: What is Intelligence?
AI Spring 1921-1962
A Nerd is Born
The Giants of Carnegie Mellon
AI Summer 1963-1972
Charles River Fever
Programming as Mathematics
Publishing or Perishing
AI Fall 1973-1982
Among the Gods
Letting Go
AI Winter 1983-1989
Running a Project
The Evolution of Intelligence
AI Spring 1990-1997
Human Computer Interaction
Sustaining the CS Department
AI Summer 1998-2015
New Millennium, Second Life
Return to Silicon Valley
Learning to Innovate
AI Fall 2016 -
What Should We Do about AI?
What I Think Now
Brave New 2084
ReadingsAcknowledgements
About the Author