- Fermat鈥檚 Last Theorem by Amir Aczel, Four Walls, Eight Windows
- The Invention That Changed the World by Robert Buderi, Simon & Schuster
- Full House by Stephen Jay Gould, Harmony
- The Cerebral Code by William Calvin, MIT Press
- The Third Culture by John Brockman, Simon & Schuster
- Hal鈥檚 Legacy by David Stork, MIT Press
- Darwin鈥檚 Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt, MIT Press
- A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinski, Pantheon
- The Book of Numbers by John Conway and Richard Guy, Copernicus
- The Eleventh Plague by Leonard Cole, W. H. Freeman
Born on 12 January 1997, HAL was the star of 2001. HALmaniacs are
celebrating: the book is a bestseller, 45 Net sites and hundreds of events. Try
David Stork at the Exploratorium tomorrow in San Francisco, Cyberfest 鈥�97 in
March or go for the big one, NASA鈥檚 workshop on intelligent, autonomous systems
in April.
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