Michie, Donald, 1923-2007 (artificial intelligence researcher)
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1971-1973
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.261
Scope and Contents
The material consists of correspondence between Donald Michie and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1971-1973. It mainly relates to Pollock's 1971 proposal for a 'Federation of Machine (later Artificial) Intelligence' at Edinburgh.
Dates:
1971-1973
Correspondence, 1960-1968
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.259
Scope and Content
The material consists of correspondence between Donald Michie and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1960-1968. It relates to meetings and Michie's career.
Dates:
1960-1968
Correspondence, 1969-1970
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.260
Scope and Contents
The material consists of correspondence between Donald Michie and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1969-1970.
Dates:
1969-1970
Figures from "Towards a Theoretical Biology", Volume 1 (Edinburgh University Press and Chicago Aldine, 1968), 1968
Item
Identifier: Coll-41/4/20
Scope and Contents
Contains:
Figures 1-3 for 'An approach to a blueprint of a primitive organism' by A.G Cairns-Smith;
Fig 1 from 'A note on evolution and changes in the quantitiy of genetic information' by Waddington and R.C Lewontin;
Fig 2 for 'Does evolution depend on random search?' by Waddington;
Fig 1 from 'The counting problem' by J. Maynard Smith;
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Dates:
1968
Miscellaneous background material, c. 1970
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/E/1/E.27
Scope and Contents
The material consists of miscellaneous background material relating to 'The evolution of centres of communication (information) and control in Biology', c. 1970. It includes a letter from D. Michie, dated 13 November 1970 re. artificial intelligence; manuscript notes.
Dates:
c. 1970