Revolutionary 1987 documentary and 1990 book by Raymond Kurzweil that foresaw many of the technical developments of the coming decade, chronicling the progress leading the way.

The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Film By Ray Kurzweil
This award-winning 1987 documentary is the basis of the book The Age of Intelligent Machines, and features several AI experts--some are big thinkers on this site! (Added October 30th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Prologue: The Second Industrial Revolution By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter One: The Roots of Artificial Intelligence By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Two: Philosophical Roots By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: A Platonic Dialog on the Nature of Human Thought By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Age of Intelligent People By Margaret Litvin
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: A Conversation between a Human Computer and a Materialist Philosopher By Blaine Mathieu
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: ELIZA Passes the Turing Test By Seymour Papert
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test By Douglas R. Hofstadter
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Three: Mathematical Roots By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Four: The Formula for Intelligence By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: A NOR B--The Basis of Intelligence? By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Five: Mechanical Roots By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age Intelligent Machines, Chapter Six: Electronic Roots By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Seven: The Moving Frontier By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Eight: The Search for Knowledge By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: An Expert System for Automotive Diagnosis By Jeff Pepper
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Significance of Fifth-Generation Computer Systems By Kazuhiro Fuchi
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems--AI in the U.K. By Brian W. Oakley
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Nine: The Science of Art By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: A (Kind Of) Turing Test By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Artificial Intelligence and Musical Composition By Charles Ames
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: All Work and No Play Makes HAL a Dull Program By Michael Lebowitz
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Mechanics of Creativity By Christopher Owens and Roger Schank
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter 10: Visions By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Fairy Tales By Allen Newell
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter 11: The Impact On... By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: A Technology of Liberation By George Gilder
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Chronology By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Footnotes By Ray Kurzweil
From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added September 24th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Growing Up in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Reconstructions of the Psychological and Reconsiderations of the Human By Sherry Turkle
In this chapter from The Age of Intelligent Machines (published 1990), Sherry Turkle looks at the cultural implications of artificial intelligence, when computers become mirrors for our identities. How does thinking about machines make us rethink what it means to be human? (Added April 25th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence By Margaret A. Boden
Is artificial intelligence in human society a utopian dream or a Faustian nightmare? Will our descendants honor us for making machines do things that human minds do or berate us for irresponsibility and hubris? In this chapter from The Age of Intelligent Machines (published in 1990), Margaret A. Boden explores the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on society. (Added April 25th 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Can Computers Think? By Mitchell Waldrop
The complexities of the mind mirror the challenges of Artificial Intelligence. This article discusses the nature of thought itself--can it be replicated in a machine? From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added February 22nd 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: A Personal Postscript By Ray Kurzweil
Pattern matching is the basis of Raymond Kurzweil's inventions in optical character recognition, speech recognition and synthesis, and electronic music. From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added February 22nd 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence By Marvin Minsky
One of the visionaries in the field of AI shares his thoughts on AI, from the beginning of the last decade. From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added February 22nd 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Can Machines Think? By Daniel Dennett
The "inner light, that private way that it is with you that nobody else can share ... is forever outside the bounds of computer science," argues philosopher Dennett. From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added February 22nd 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Knowledge Processing--From File Servers to Knowledge Servers By Edward Feigenbaum
This chapter from The Age of Intelligent Machines (published in 1990) addresses the history and development of AI, and where it was headed, circa 1990. (Added February 22nd 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Brother Giorgio's Kangaroo By Harold Cohen
Scientist-painter Harold Cohen reveals the mystery works behind his famous "artificially" intelligent AARON program, which draws landscapes and portraits. A profound symbiosis of man and machine, as computer imitates art and art imitates life, it demonstrates the growing capacity of technology to reflect the subtlety of human experience. From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added February 22nd 2001)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: Postscript By Ray Kurzweil
Inventor, futurist Ray Kurzweil surveys the complex and daunting initiative to create truly intelligent machines. Neural net decision-making rivals experts, pattern recognition mimics human capabilities. While true human intelligence dwarfs today's artificial intelligence, there is no fundamental barrier to the AI field's ultimately achieving this objective, he says. From Ray Kurzweil's revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990. (Added February 22nd 2001)