"Shows demonstrations of some recent machine developments and compares these with the performance of the human brain. Mathematician Claude E. Shannon demonstrates his artificial mouse in an electronic maze, Alex Bernstein and his collaborators at International Business Machines demonstrate a digital computer to play chess, and Leon Harmon demonstrates a pattern recognizer which is able to determine whether a figure is a circle, a triangle, a square, or a pentagon." -- Worldcat

Part of the "Horizons of Science" series.