Pamela McCorduck

Pamela McCorduck (* 1940 in Liverpool ) is an American journalist and non-fiction author.

She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley , with a Bachelor's degree (BA) and Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Pamela McCorduck is best known for her books on artificial intelligence . Her subjects are mostly science, with psychological aspects being pursued. She also wrote novels also on science subjects (for example, her novels, The Edge of Chaos and Bounded Rationality are about people directly or indirectly affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute ). Pamela McCorduck has written with Nancy Ramsey about women in computer science (which became a television documentary on CNN), and she is also a consultant in high technology industry and other fields.

She has written for Cosmopolitan, Omni, The New York Times, Daedalus, the Michigan Quarterly Review Wired, among others. McCorduck was President of the American PEN Center.

Pamela McCorduck was married to the computer scientist and professor at Columbia University Joseph F. Traub (1932-2015). She lives in New York and is also often in Santa Fe, New Mexico .

Works

Non-fiction books:

• Machines who think, San Francisco: Freeman 1979, 2nd edition AK Peters 2004
  • German edition: Thinking machines: the history of artificial intelligence, market and technology 1987
• The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist, McGraw Hill 1985, San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1986.
• with Edward Feigenbaum, H. Penny Nii: The Rise of the Expert Company: how visionary companies are using artificial intelligence to achieve higher productivity and profits, London: Macmillan 1988
• AARON's Code: Meta-art, Artificial Intelligence, and the work of Harold Cohen. New York: WH Freeman. 1997
• with Edward Feigenbaum : The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World, Addison-Wesley 1983
  • German edition: The Fifth Computer Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Challenge to the World, Birkhäuser 1984
• with Nancy Ramsey: The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century. New York: Warner Books. 1997.
  • German edition: The future of women: Scenarios for the 21st century, Fischer 1998

Novels:

• The Edge of Chaos: a novel. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press. 2007
• Bounded Rationality: a novel. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press. 2012.

Web links

• Homepage