Drafts and publications relating to Artificial Intelligence
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Drafts and publications including: 1.) Photocopies of handwritten drafts of ‘Computational Models of Religious Belief’ and ‘Acquisition and revision of beliefs by machines: some problems of rationality’ by Donald Michie 2.) ‘”Mind-like” capabilities in computers: A note on computer induction’ ...
Copies of the publications of the Experimental Programming Unit, University of Edinburgh including: 1.) Experimental Programming 1970. Report on SRC Grant Number B/SR/3811 2.) Experimental Programming 1973. Report to SRC on Grant Numbers 3.) A Quantitative Study of Problem-Solving using Slidi...
Miscellaneous printed items relating to Bletchley Park
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Miscellaneous items relating to Bletchley Park: 1.) Programme, list of participants and Donald Michie’s acetate slides, for an overhead projector (OHP), from the ‘History of Cryptography’ conference. 2.) Acetate slides (OHP) from a talk by Donald Michie relating to Bletchley Park. 3.) Brochur...
Copies of printed articles relating to Bletchley Park
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Copies of printed articles relating to Bletchley Park including: 1.) ‘Alan Turing’s Mind Machines’ by Donald Michie 2.) ‘Turing’s Test and Conscious Thought’ by Donald Michie and includes a note from him to Anne McLaren 3.) Draft version of ‘Code Breaking and Colossus’ by Donald Michie 4.) P...
Publications relating to Donald Michie’s university work
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1.) Articles on memo functions from the Department of Machine Intelligence and perception, University of Edinburgh 2.) ‘Vision and manipulation as a programming problem’ by Michie, Ambler, Barrow, Burstall, Popplestone and Turner
Notebooks relating to the Turing-Church Thesis and the causality for MI-17
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File includes 2 notebooks: 1.) Notebook on the Turing-Church Thesis 2.) Notebook is mostly blank but contains two pages of notes on the causality for MI-17
Papers relating to the Edinburgh Computer History Project
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File relating to the Edinburgh Computer History Project reunion including: 1.) Letter from the Head of School Professor Michael Fourman 2.) Programme from the Edinburgh Computer Project 3.) Acetate slides of Donald Michie’s talk ‘Mechanisations of Thought: Early Edinburgh Adventures’, which he...
Miscellaneous personal papers of Donald Michie including: 1.) Donald Michie’s CV, three copies of a list of his scientific publications and pen portraits of Donald Michie and Jean Hayes Michie 2.) Three poems by Donald Michie called 'Pilate', 'Barabba's and 'Mary' 3.) ‘On Tour-in Russia’ from...