Computers were within my sphere of attention, but only computers used as number crunchers. In spite of the "giant brain" metaphor, there is little suggestion in this 1950 talk that the most important application of computers might lie in imitating intelligence symbolically, not numerically.


p. 199. - Models of my life, 1991

Herbert A. Simon Quotes

Computers were within my sphere of attention, but only computers used as number crunchers. In spite of the giant brain metaphor, there is little...

Computers were within my sphere of attention, but only computers used as number crunchers. In spite of the giant brain metaphor, there is little...

Computers were within my sphere of attention, but only computers used as number crunchers. In spite of the giant brain metaphor, there is little...

Computers were within my sphere of attention, but only computers used as number crunchers. In spite of the giant brain metaphor, there is little...