📚 7 Books mentioned in "Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34" of Lex Fridman Podcast

there was a novelist in town a man named Mark Harris he had just just arrived and his wife Josephine mark was most famous then for a novel called bang the drum solo slowly which was about baseball and Joe and me so eight people and we met monthly

The guest mentions a novelist, Mark Harris, and his famous novel 'bang the drum solo slowly'.

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and before that I had worked on a book by edited by Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman called a computers and thought it was the first textbook of readings of AI

The guest mentions working on a book edited by Feigenbaum and Feldman, describing it as the first AI textbook.

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it's the Frankenstein idea yes the annotator Frankenstein on my coffee table is this tremendous novel

The guest refers to the 'Frankenstein idea' and mentions the novel 'Frankenstein'.

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her books include machines who think in 1979 the fifth generation in 1983 with Edie foggy and mom who's considered to be the father of expert systems the edge of chaos the features of women and many more books

The host lists several books written by the guest, including 'machines who think'.

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and herb had read Proust in the original French twice all the way through

The guest mentions that Herb Simon had read 'Proust' (referring to his work) in French.

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her books include machines who think in 1979 the fifth generation in 1983 with Edie foggy and mom who's considered to be the father of expert systems the edge of chaos the features of women and many more books

The host lists several books written by the guest, including 'the edge of chaos'.

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If you read Homer Homer has robots in the Iliad and a classical scholar was pointing out to me just a few months ago

The guest mentions Homer's 'the Iliad' as containing early ideas of robots.

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