The mechanical mind in history / / edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler
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| Titolo: |
The mechanical mind in history / / edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler
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| 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->
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| 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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