Tim@CIS.UPENN.EDU.UUCP (11/06/86)
AIList used to include frequent notes about how AI was being presented in literature, movies and TV shows. I just ran across a new wrinkle. My daughter recently bought several paperbacks published by New American Library (Signet) in a series called "The AI Gang". Here is the text from the jacket of the first book in the series, "Operation Sherlock": "Five whiz kids who call themselves the AI gang -- for Artificial Intelligence -- accompany their scientist parents to a small secluded island. While their parents are teaching a secret computer to think for itself, the kids try their hand at programming a sleuthing computer named Sherlock. They soon discover that there is an evil spy out to destroy their parents' project. When three of the gang are almost killed in an explosion, the kids and their specially developed crime computer must race against time to reveal the spy's identity ... before all of them are blown to smithereens ..." My daughter thought all of the books in the series were pretty good, btw. Tim