Pamela McCorduck is the author or co-author of nine published books. Three are novels and six are focused on the intellectual impact of computing, especially aspects of artificial intelligence. Among her books are Machines Who Think, The Fifth Generation, The Universal Machine, The Futures of Women, and Aaron's Code. Her first novel in many years, The Edge of Chaos, was recently published and was short-listed for Best Fiction in the 2008 New Mexico Book Awards. Her earlier novels are Familiar Relations and Working to the End.

In March 2004, a 25^th anniversary edition of Machines Who Think was published, which includes a substantial afterword to bring the history of artificial intelligence up to date. Her books have been translated into all the major European and Asian languages, and her work has appeared in journals ranging from Cosmopolitan and Omni to the New York Times, Daedalus, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. She has been a contributing editor to Wired.

She has consulted for a wide range of firms and other organizations in the high technology, financial, and transportation sectors. She served on a panel to advise the National Academy of Engineering about the future of engineering, and, with Nancy Ramsey, has co-authored commissioned studies on women in information technology (for the National Sciences Foundation) and women in design (for a large international design firm). She has appeared on many television shows, including PBS's News Hour and the CBS Evening News. CNN based a two-part documentary on the book she and Ramsey co-authored, The Futures of Women.

She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. She now divides her time between New York City and Santa Fe with her husband, Joseph F. Traub, and is at work on a new book.

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