Interview Recordings

Series III comprises the audio cassettes which contain the interviews conducted by McCorduck, as well as other related recordings. Pamela McCorduck conducted a series of interviews with researchers involved in artificial intelligence (AI) between 1974 and 1975. The project was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The interviews resulted in McCorduck's book Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1979).

Please note, there are access and reuse restrictions for the interviews in this series. Most of the interviews and transcripts are available for personal research only. Reuse of these interviews is restricted by current copyright law.

The interviews and transcripts that are available without restrictions are: Bruce Buchanan, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Julian Feldman, H. L. Gelernter, I. J. Good, Allen Newell, Seymour Papert, Herbert Simon, and Joseph Weizenbaum.

Some of the cassette tapes have been digtized. Please contact the University Archives for access or for more information.