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Final Jeopardy

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by Stephen Baker


  Dyson, George B., Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence, Basic Books, 1997

  Harris, Bob, Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!, Crown Publishers, 2006

  Hawkins, Jeff, with Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence, Henry Holt and Co., 2004

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  Kidder, Tracy, The Soul of a New Machine, Little, Brown and Co., 1981

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  Ma, Jeffrey, The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010

  McNeely, Ian F., with Lisa Wolverton, Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet, W. W. Norton & Co., 2008

  Nass, Clifford, with Corina Yen, The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach us about Human Relationships, Current, 2010

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  Pinker, Steven, How the Mind Works, W. W. Norton & Co., 1997

  Rasskin-Gutman, Diego, Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind, MIT Press, 2009

  Richmond, Ray, This Is Jeopardy!: Celebrating America’s Favorite Quiz Show, Barnes & Noble Books, 2004

  Storrs Hall, J., Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine, Prometheus Books, 2007

  Wright, Alex, Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages, Joseph Henry Press, 2007

  About the Author

  Stephen Baker was BusinessWeek’s senior technology writer for a decade, based first in Paris and later New York. He blogs at finaljeopardy.net and is on Twitter @Stevebaker. Roger Lowenstein called his first book, The Numerati, “eye-opening and chilling.” Baker is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

  Footnotes

  1. In Jeopardy, the answers on the board are called “clues,” and the players’ questions—what most viewers perceive as answers—are “responses.”

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