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The Kraken Project / by Douglas Preston.

Summary:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe to be dropped into the Kraken Mare, a methane sea on Titan. During testing, an explosion kills seven scientists, and the self-modifying AI program, "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series character Wyman Ford is tapped to track down the software before it is captured by Wall Street traders who want to turn the AI into an algorithmic-trading slave-bot.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780765317698
  • Physical Description: 352 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Forge, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
Subject:
Ford, Wyman (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Artificial intelligence > Fiction.
Cyberspace > Fiction.
Titan (Symbolic character) > Fiction.
Genre:
Thrillers (Fiction)
Science fiction.

Available copies

  • 37 of 38 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Brown Library System.

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Summary: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe to be dropped into the Kraken Mare, a methane sea on Titan. During testing, an explosion kills seven scientists, and the self-modifying AI program, "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series character Wyman Ford is tapped to track down the software before it is captured by Wall Street traders who want to turn the AI into an algorithmic-trading slave-bot.