The mechanical mind in history
The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. Tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions, and the origins of ideas now central to artifical intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and ne...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
MIT,
c2008.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780262256384 |
| Physical Description | 1 online zdroj (458 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The mechanical mind / Philip Husbands, Michael Wheeler, and Owen Holland
- Charles Babbage and the emergence of automated reason / Seth Bullock
- D'Arcy Thompson : a grandfather of A-life / Margaret A. Boden
- Alan Turing's mind machines / Donald Michie
- What did Alan Turing mean by "machine"? / Andrew Hodges
- The ratio club : a hub of British cybernetics / Philip Husbands and Owen Holland
- From mechanisms of adaptation to intelligence amplifiers : the philosophy of W. Ross Ashby / Peter M. Asaro
- Gordon Pask and his maverick machines / Jon Bird and Ezequiel Di Paolo
- Santiago dreaming / Andy Beckett
- Steps toward the synthetic method : symbolic information processing and self-organizing systems in early artificial intelligence modeling / Roberto Cordeschi
- The mechanization of art / Paul Brown
- The robot story : why robots were born and how they grew up / Jana Horâakovâa and Jozef Kelemen
- God's machines : Descartes on the mechanization of mind / Michael Wheeler
- Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian / Hubert L. Dreyfus
- An interview with John Maynard Smith
- An interview with John Holland
- An interview with Oliver Selfridge
- An interview with Horace Barlow
- An interview with Jack Cowan.