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Title The mechanical mind in history / edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2008]
©2008
©2008

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Description viii, 458 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Series Collection of Jamie and Michael Kassler. ANL
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.
Cognitive science -- History.
Biological systems -- Simulation methods -- History.
Philosophy of mind.
Artificial intelligenc -- History
Artificial intelligence -- History.
Artificial intelligence -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form History.
Author Husbands, Phil, editor
Holland, Owen, editor
Wheeler, Michael, 1960- editor
LC no. 2007035271
ISBN 9780262083775