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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814768003321

Titolo

The mechanical mind in history / / edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

0-262-31112-7

9786612096419

0-262-25638-X

1-282-09641-9

1-4356-3173-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HusbandsPhil

HollandOwen

WheelerMichael <1960->

Disciplina

006.309

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence - History

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: The Mechanical Mind; 2 Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason; 3 D'Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life 1; 4 Alan Turing's Mind Machines; 5 What Did Alan Turing Mean by ''Machine''?; 6 The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics; 7 From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby; 8 Gordon Pask and His Maverick Machines; 9 Santiago Dreaming; 10 Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling

11 The Mechanization of Art 12 The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up; 13 God's Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind; 14 Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian; 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; About the Contributors; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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 artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and neuroscience.