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Author · AI Historian · Museum Curator · Musician

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Newquist

Artificial intelligence. Museums. Books. Music.

HP Newquist is an author, artificial intelligence expert, musician, and museum curator.

Selected Work

Books

More than thirty books spanning topics from science to technology, music to medicine, history, and the things that terrify us.

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Artificial Intelligence

Four decades of writing, speaking, and consulting on the development and application of thinking machines.

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Museums

Founder and executive director of The National GUITAR Museum, with exhibitions touring across the country.

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Books

Newquist has written about artificial intelligence for more than four decades.

His work has been cited by The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, The Economist, and others. He was a columnist for Computerworld, AI Expert, and The Expert Systems Journal; a contributor to Popular Mechanics, Newsweek, and the Encarta Encyclopedia; and founder and publisher of the AI TRENDS newsletter.

The Brain Makers book cover by HP Newquist
The Brain Makers

The National GUITAR Museum and five touring exhibitions.

In addition to founding The National GUITAR Museum, Newquist has developed museum exhibitions on guitars, music, art, cultural history, and artificial intelligence.

  • America At The Crossroads: The Guitar And A Changing Nation
  • Shape Shifting: The Guitar As Modern ARTifact
  • Medieval To Metal: The Art & Evolution Of The GUITAR
  • GUITAR: The Instrument That Rocked The World
  • Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine

Awards & Recognition

Music composed for guitar, films, and artificial intelligence.

Newquist has composed music for guitar and contributed to several films. Several compositions, including “Symphony For Artificial Intelligence (Overture)”, can be heard on SoundCloud.

Symphony for Artificial Intelligence cover art
Symphony For Artificial Intelligence