Edmund C. Berkeley: Giant Brains, or Machines That Think (1949/1961)

Giant Brains is one of the first books on electronic computers for a general audience.

In it, the co-founder Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Edmund Berkeley described the principles behind computing machines (called then “mechanical brains”, “sequence-controlled calculators”, or various other terms), and then gave a technical but accessible survey of the most prominent examples of the time, including machines from MIT, Harvard, the Moore School, Bell Laboratories, and elsewhere.

Originally published by Wiley & Sons, 1949
Publisher Science Editions, New York, 1961
292 pages

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Cybernetic, 1-2 (1985-1986)

Editors: Gordon Pask, Humberto Maturana, Heinz von Foerster, Terry Winograd, Paul Trachtman, Larry Richards
Publisher The American Society for Cybernetics
ISSN 0883-4202

PDF (Vol 1, No 1, Summer-Fall 1985, 148 pp)
PDF (Vol 2, No 1: “Social Violence”, 1986, 82 pp)

Constructivism and Kinetic Art: Exat 51, New Tendencies, catalogue (1995) [English/Croatian]

Catalogue for an exhibition of the works of Exat 51 and New Tendencies from the collection of Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia.

Curated and edited by Marijan Susovski
With texts by Leonida Kovac, Marijan Susovski
Publisher City Gallery, Zagreb, June 1995
ISBN 9536043033
154 pages
via Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

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