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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : MIT, ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (469 p.)
• Disciplina: 006.309
• Soggetto topico: Artificial intelligence - History; Artificial intelligence - Philosophy
• Soggetto non controllato: COMPUTER SCIENCE/Artificial Intelligence
• Altri autori: HusbandsPhil HollandOwen WheelerMichael <1960->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The mechanical mind in history
• ISBN: 0-262-31112-7; 9786612096419; 0-262-25638-X; 1-282-09641-9; 1-4356-3173-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778336203321
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