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Judith A. Markowitz

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Katherine V. Forrest

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I was raised in Chicago got degrees in computer science (focus AI) and linguistics. Those two areas have helped me write articles and books. In the past few years, I've been writing books about robots and their ancestors, like Frankenstein and Pinocchio.
I call them "robot-precursors" because they give us insight into how we think about robots and what we want robots to be like. My most recent book is Robots That Kill - it looks at killer robots and robot-precursors in mythology, literature, comics, manga & anime, TV and other media.
Now, I'm writing Robots That Love. It is a sister book to Robots That Kill

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I’ve worked as a consultant in speech and language technology for more than thirty years during which time I
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