More Words, Deeper Hole

I'm not going to bother doing his 101, but for "other stories that feature an intelligent self-aware computer set close to the present written by women or men" folks should check out romance/mystery writer Donna Andrews' Turing Hopper series, set in present days, starting with *You've Got Murder*. I like the cameraderie between the stealth AI (named Turing by its missing creator) and the humans it makes friends with, and the genesis of a couple more AIs during the series -- they're different from each other and have different agendas. I wish Andrews had written more about Turing and company, but Meg the blacksmith sells more books (they're fun, just not as interesting to me).