The Pentagon's Brain
A history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), tracing its secretive development of advanced military technologies from the Cold War to the present. The book draws on interviews and declassified documents to examine the agency's role in creating weapons, surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence.
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Ranked #262 of 1942 · 560 pages · Published 2015
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Book data: ISBN 9780316387699. Page count from Open Library (median of editions). Cover via Open Library Covers.