Vol. 8 No. 3 (2017)
Articles

Libraries, Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence: J. C. R. Licklider and the Libraries of the Future

Mirko Tavosanis
Università di Pisa

Published 2017-09-15

Keywords

  • J. C. R. Licklider,
  • History of computing,
  • History of interfaces,
  • Speech understanding

How to Cite

Tavosanis, M. (2017). Libraries, Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence: J. C. R. Licklider and the Libraries of the Future. JLIS.It, 8(3), 137–147. https://doi.org/10.4403/jlis.it-12271

Abstract

In 1965, J. C. R. Licklider published a book regarding the “Libraries of the future”. This book was soon almost forgotten when a different paradigm of computing, partially created by Licklider himself, became dominant. However, a re-reading of the book, in hindsight, not only gives a glimpse of a seminal moment in the history human interaction with computers but allows a chance to see in a different light many issues still relevant to the field.

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