"[A] famous photograph... showing McCulloch (1898–1969) and Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) with British Cyberneticians Ros…"

"In the dark ages before the invention of the electronic vacuum tube there were many legends of living statues and mag…"

"In any case there is an intense modern interest in machines that imitate life. The great difference between magic and…"

"[Walter even gave the tortoises a mock-biological name, Machina speculatrix] because they illustrate particularly the…"

"[E]xperiments with a simple little machine, designed to mimic certain elementary features of animal behavior... Consi…"

"The mechanism of learning is of course one of the most enthralling and baffling mysteries in the field of biology."

"[A]n electro-mechanical creature which behaves so much like an animal that it has been known to drive a not usually t…"

"The first notion of constructing a free goal-seeking mechanism goes back a wartime talk with the psychologist, , whos…"

"Not in looks, but in action, the model must resemble an animal. Therefore it must have these or some measure of these…"

"Some of these patterns of performance were calculable, though only as types of behaviour, in advance; some were quite…"