Books & Other Writing

Pamela McCorduck’s books have received praise from publications including Nature, and Scientific American. In its original year of publication, Machines Who Think was cited by the New York Public Library as a book of particular merit, and twenty-five years later, the journal AI Magazine devoted a two-page article to the book's quarter century of influence. At a celebration of the book forty years after its publication, she heard that it had influenced an entire generation of AI researchers who were now leaders in the field.

Her nonfiction has been translated into all the major European and Asian languages, and The Fifth Generation was an international best-seller.

An aficionado of not just technology, but also literature, music, and culture, McCorduck’s compelling writing spans disciplines, providing a fascinating perspective on how AI serves as a bridge between science and the humanities.