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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Husbands, Phil, Holland, Owen, Wheeler, Michael, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Horáková 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.