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Human information processing

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• Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (Washington: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1999), by Richards J. Heuer (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now (c1996), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML with commentary at williamcalvin.com)
• Macrostructures: An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition (Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1980), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)

• Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, c2018), by James Williams (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• A Remedy for Wandering Thoughts in the Worship of God (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1835), by Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (New York and London: Routledge, c2002), by Nick Bostrom (HTML and PDF with commentary at anthropic-principle.com)

• When Prophecy Fails (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1956), by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Verdegem (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Artificial Intelligence and Games (2018), by Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius (PDF with commentary at gameaibook.org)
• Artificial Intelligence and Responsive Optimization (second edition, 2003), by Mohammad Khosnevisan, Sukanto Bhattacharya, and Florentin Smarandache (PDF at UNM)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence (third edition, reprinted with corrections; Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1993), by Patrick Henry Winston (PDF at MIT)
• The Age of Intelligent Machines (c1992), by Ray Kurzweil (at kurzweilai.net)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog (1988), by Neil C. Rowe (HTML at nps.edu)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF wih commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• When Things Start to Think (c1999), by Neil A. Gershenfeld (HTML with commentary at kurzweilai.net)
• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind (1978, with added notes and corrections), by Aaron Sloman (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Accelerando (2005), by Charles Stross (multiple formats with commentary at antipope.org)
• Old Soldiers (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 183 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 185 MB
• Bolo! (included on a CD image), by David Weber, contrib. by Keith Laumer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 151 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 152 MB
• The Fourth "R", by George O. Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Halo, by Tom Maddox (HTML at dthomasmaddox.com)

• What Was Artificial Intelligence? (with a new introduction; Bethlehem, PA: Mediastudies.press, 2022), by Sue Curry Jansen (multiple formats with commentary at mediastudies.press)
• This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), by Pamela McCorduck (HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1993-) (full serial archives)

• Can We Trust AI? (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), by Rama Chellappa, contrib. by Eric Niiler (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews (c1996), by John McCarthy (PDF at Stanford)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (second edition, 2017), by David L. Poole and Alan K. Mackworth (illustrated HTML with commentary at artintinfo)

• Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence, and Robustness (c1994), by Shankar Sastry and Marc Bodson (PDF files with commentary at Utah)

• Concrete Semantics with Isabelle/HOL (2018), by Tobias Nipkow and Gerwin Klein (PDF with commentary at concrete-semantics.org)
• Implementing Mathematics with the Nuprl Proof Development System (1985), ed. by R. L. Constable (illustrated HTML at Cornell)
• Isabelle/HOL: A Proof Assistant for Higher-Order Logic (2018), by Tobias Nipkow, Lawrence C. Paulson, and Markus Wenzel (PDF in Germany)
• Logic for Computer Science: Foundations of Automatic Theorem Proving (revised edition, 2003, with errata for the original edition and other papers), by Jean H. Gallier (PDF and Postscript files here at Penn)

• The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (second edition, 2009), by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and J. H. Friedman (PDF with commentary at Stanford)

• Programming Computer Vision with Python (prepublication draft, 2012), by Jan Erik Solem (PDF with commentary at programmingconputervision.com)
• Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (prepublication draft, c2010), by Richard Szeliski (PDF with commentary at szeliski.org)

• Natural Computing and Beyond (proceedings of tsunami-disrupted Winter School Hakodate 2011, and 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing; c2013), ed. by Yasuhiro Suzuki and Toshiyuki Nakagaki (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)

• An Introduction to Neural Networks (eighth edition, 1996), by Ben Kröse and Patrick van der Smagt (PDF in France)
• Graph Representation Learning (prepublication version, 2020), by William L. Hamilton (PDF at McGill)
• Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification, ed. by Donald Michie, D. J. Spiegelhalter, and Charles C. Taylor (PDF and gzipped Postscript in the UK)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.