100 animated feature films / / Andrew Osmond

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911094938403321
• Autore: Osmond Andrew
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : British Film Institute : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2010
• ISBN: 1-83871-051-5; 1-83871-393-X; 1-84457-563-2; 9781844575633
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Collana: Screen Guides
• Classificazione: 778.77
• Disciplina: 791.4334
• Soggetti: Animated films; Film & Media
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A BFI book published by Palgrave Macmillan"--T.p.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 238) and index
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926 -- Akira, 1988 -- Aladdin, 1992 -- Alice, 1988 -- Alice in Wonderland, 1948 -- Allegro non troppo, 1977 -- American Pop, 1981 -- Animal Farm, 1954 -- Antz, 1998 -- El Apostol, 1917 -- Avatar, 2009 -- Azur &amp -- Asmar: The Princes' Quest, 2006 -- Bambi, 1942 -- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, 2000 -- Beauty and the Beast, 1991 -- Belleville Rendez-Vous, 2003 -- Cinderella, 1950 -- Comet Quest: The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1985 -- Coraline, 2009 -- Dumbo, 1941 -- The Emperor's Nightingale, 1949 -- The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, 1958 -- Fantasia, 1940 -- Fantastic Mr Fox, 2009 -- Fantastic Planet, 1973 -- Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, 1992 -- Finding Nemo, 2003 -- Fritz the Cat, 1972 -- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, 2004 -- The Girl Who Leapt through Time, 2006 -- Grave of the Fireflies, 1988 -- Happy Feet, 2006 -- Hoppity Goes to Town, 1941 -- How to Train Your Dragon, 2010 -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1996 -- Ice Age, 2002 -- Idiots and Angels, 2008 -- The Illusionist, 2010 -- The Incredibles, 2004 -- The Iron Giant, 1999 -- Ivan and His Magic Pony, ; 1947/1975 -- The Jungle Book, 1967 -- Kiki's Delivery Service, 1989 -- King Kong, 1933 -- Kung Fu Panda, 2008 -- Laputa: Castle in the Sky1986 -- Lilo and Stitch, 2002 -- The Lion King, 1994 -- The Little Norse Prince, 1968 -- Memories, Koji Morimoto, 1995 -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1959 -- Mind Game, 2004 -- Monsters, Inc., 2001 -- My Life as McDull, 2001 -- My Neighbour Totoro, 1988 -- Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, 1997 -- Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, 1979 -- Night on the Galactic Railroad, 1985 -- The Nightmare before Christmas, 1993 -- Ninja Scroll, 1993 -- One Hundred and One Dalmations, 1961 -- Only Yesterday, 1991.; Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, 2007 -- Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, 1975 -- Pinocchio, 1940 -- The Polar Express, 2004 -- Ponyo, 2008 -- Porco Rosso, 1992 -- The Prince of Egypt, 1998 -- Princess Mononoke, 1997 -- The Rescuers, 1977 -- Rock &amp -- Rule, 1983 -- Le Roi et l'oiseau, 1980 -- Le Roman de Renard, 1937 -- A Scanner Darkly, 2006 -- The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, 1993 -- The Secret of Kells, 2009 -- The Secret of NIMH, 1982 -- Shrek, Andrew Adamson, 2001 -- Sita Sings the Blues, 2008 -- The Sky Crawlers, 2008 -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 -- Son of White Mare, 1981 -- South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, 1999 -- Spirited Away, 2001 -- Summer Wars, 2009 -- The Thief and the Cobbler, 1995 -- A Thousand and One Nights, 1969 -- The Three Caballeros, 1944 -- Tokyo Godfathers, 2003 -- Toy Story, 1995 -- Up, 2009 -- Wallace &amp -- Gromit in the The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, 2005 -- WALL·E, 2008 -- Waltz with Bashir, 2008 -- Watership Down, 1978 -- When the Wind Blows, 1986 -- Whisper of the Heart, 1995 -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988 -- Yellow Submarine, 1968 -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Twenty years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today, though, they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz with Bashir; the Gallic sophistication of Belleville Rendez-Vous; the eye-popping violence of Japan's Akira; and the stop-motion whimsy of Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse world of animated features, with entries on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day. There are key studio brands such as Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks, but there are also recognised auteur directors such as America's Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and Japan's Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away). Technologies such as motion-capture, used in films such as Avatar, blur the distinctions between live-action and animation. Meanwhile, lone artists such as Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues) and Bill Plympton (Idiots and Angels) make entire films by themselves. Blending in-depth history and criticism, 100 Animated Feature Films balances the blockbusters with local success stories from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong. There are entries on Dreamworks' Shrek, Pixar's Toy Story, and Disney's The Jungle Book, but you will also find pieces on Germany's silhouette-based The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest surviving animated feature; on the thirty year production of Richard Williams' legendary opus, The Thief and the Cobbler; and on the lost work of Argentina's Quirino Cristiani, who reputedly made the first animated feature in 1917.

Advances in artificial general intelligence : concepts, architectures and algorithms : proceedings of the AGI Workshop 2006 / / edited by Ben Goertzel and Pei Wang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911138329403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Washington, : IOS Press, c2007
• ISBN: 6610934924; 1-280-93492-1; 9786610934928; 1-4294-9232-5; 1-60750-255-0; 600-00-0329-3; 1-4337-0859-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Collana: Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications ; ; v. 157
• Altri autori (Persone): GoertzelBen; WangPei
• Disciplina: 006.3
• Soggetti: Artificial intelligence; Self-organizing systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Preface; Contents; Introduction: Aspects of Artificial General Intelligence; A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence; Four Contemporary AGI Designs: A Comparative Treatment; A Foundational Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence; A Working Hypothesis for General Intelligence; From NARS to a Thinking Machine; Adaptive Algorithmic Hybrids for Human-Level Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Map Dimensions of the Human Value System Extracted from Natural Language; Program Evolution for General Intelligence; Artificial Brains. An Inexpensive Method for Accelerating the Evolution of Neural Network Modules for Building Artificial BrainsComplex Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Psychology; Stages of Cognitive Development in Uncertain-Logic-Based AI Systems; Indefinite Probabilities for General Intelligence; Virtual Easter Egg Hunting: A Thought-Experiment in Embodied Social Learning, Cognitive Process ; Integration, and the Dynamic Emergence of the Self; Probabilistic Logic Based Reinforcement Learning of Simple Embodied Behaviors in a 3D Simulation World; How Do We More Greatly Ensure Responsible AGI?Panel Discussion: What Are the Bottlenecks, and How Soon to AGI?; Author Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examines the creation of software programs displaying broad, deep, human-style general intelligence. This work features papers presented at the 2006 AGIRI (Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute) workshop, which illustrates that it is a fit and proper subject for serious science and engineering exploration.