Pamela McCorduck

About the author

Pamela Ann McCorduck was a British-born American author known for books on artificial intelligence, engineering, and the role of women in technology, as well as three novels. She contributed to major publications including Omni, The New York Times, Daedalus, and the Michigan Quarterly Review, and served as a contributing editor of Wired. McCorduck was a former vice president of the PEN American Center and was married to computer scientist and academic Joseph F.

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