The founding of the MIT Artificial Intelligence laboratory [pdf]

that was an amazing read, but boy it is long...<p>Some of the stuff in there is common knowledge, but plenty is not and you could probably set up a nice cookies file from all the quotes in there.

Enjoyed the bit about hacker culture and the milliblatts :)

Also Hackers by Steven Levy is a huge source of data on the Lisp/Cellular Automation days.