Heartless Computing

Sir: Myles Harris's article on computer 'artificial intelligence' (14 May) is more timely than you may have wished or anticipated. HEARTLESS, I regret to say, does not seem to......

Letters Supermanned Flight

Sir: As with other matters, so with comic book heroes: a little learning is a danger- ous thing. Christopher Webb (Letters, 21 May) seeks to contradict the statement that it is......

Dark Designs

Sir: Will Miss Anita Brookner (Books, 2 April) or another please explain to her benighted male readers exactly what is meant by 'designer' clothes? I should have thought this......

Ballast?

Sir: 'A Hawaiian Boeing 737 had a large part of its roof ripped off at 24,000 feet; with the loss of only one air hostess the pilot managed to fly 25 miles and land the plane'......

Cobbling Up Thought

Sir: Mr Matthew Huntbach (Letters, 28 May) is unlikely to become a successful computer scientist if he thinks the pros- pects for teaching machines to think are a 'load of......

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