Description |
viii, 458 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
Series |
Collection of Jamie and Michael Kassler. ANL
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Contents |
1. Introduction: The Mechanical Mind / Philip Husbands, Michael Wheeler and Owen Holland -- 2. Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason / Seth Bullock -- 3. D'Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life / Margaret A. Boden -- 4. Alan Turing's Mind Machines / Donald Michie -- 5. What Did Alan Turing Mean by "Machine"? / Andrew Hodges -- 6. The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics / Philip Husbands and Owen Holland -- 7. From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby / Peter M. Asaro -- 8. Gordon Pask and His Maverick Machines / Jon Bird and Ezequiel Di Paolo -- 9. Santiago Dreaming / Andy Beckett -- 10. Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling / Roberto Cordeschi -- 11. The Mechanization of Art / Paul Brown -- 12. The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up / Jana Horakova and Jozef Kelemen -- 13. God's Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind / Michael Wheeler -- 14. Why Heideggerian Al Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- 15. An Interview with John Maynard Smith -- 16. An Interview with John Holland -- 17. An Interview with Oliver Selfridge -- 18. An Interview with Horace Barlow -- 19. An Interview with Jack Cowan |
Summary |
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 neuroscience |
Analysis |
COMPUTER SCIENCE/Artificial Intelligence |
Notes |
"A Bradford book" |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Cybernetics -- History.
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Cognitive science -- History.
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Biological systems -- Simulation methods -- History.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Artificial intelligenc -- History
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Artificial intelligence -- History.
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Artificial intelligence -- Philosophy.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Author |
Husbands, Phil, editor
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Holland, Owen, editor
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Wheeler, Michael, 1960- editor
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LC no. |
2007035271 |
ISBN |
9780262083775 |
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