Perceptrons

Cambridge Massachusettes: MIT Press, 1988. Expanded Edition. Octavo in bright green wraps, 292 pp: illustrations; 23 cm Fine to fine(-); nearly imperceptible rubbing & wear to edges and exterior; crisp clean pages; corners square, binding tight. Paperback.

"This book is the center of a long-standing controversy in the study of artificial intelligence. It is claimed that pessimistic predictions made by the authors were responsible for a change in the direction of research in AI, concentrating efforts on so-called "symbolic" systems, a line of research that petered out and contributed to the so-called AI winter of the 1980s, when AI's promise was not realized." --Publisher