William Kaufmann, Inc. records, ca. 1950-1998.

William Kaufmann, Inc.

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"William Kaufmann Inc. stands for the technocratic [approach to book publishing]. The two letters most frequently heard at Kaufmann's modest headquarters in Los Altos, Calif., are "AI" (artificial intelligence), the science of making computers "think." In 1980 a professor from ... Stanford came to Kaufmann, a former editor of science books, with a handbook of artificial intelligence. Most Eastern publishers might have rejected it by return mail; Kaufmann enthusiastically agreed to publish the th...

Kaufmann, William K. (William Karl)

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