Giant Brains Or, Machines That Think
by Edmund Callis Berkeley /
1956 / English / PDF
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Edmund Callis Berkeley (February 22, 1909 - March 7, 1988) was an American computer scientist who co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1947. His 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think popularized cognitive images of early computers. In Giant Brains, Berkeley also outlined a device which some have described as the first personal computer, Simon. Plans on how to build this computer were published in the journal Radio Electronics in 1950 and 1951. Simon used relay logic and cost about $600 to construct. The first working model was built at Columbia University with the help of two graduate students. Berkeley founded, published and edited Computers and Automation, the first computer magazine. He also created the Geniac and Brainiac toy computers.
