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Title:

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

Publisher:

MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 458 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Artificial intelligence--History.
Artificial intelligence--Philosophy.

Other Authors:

Husbands, Phil.
Holland, Owen.
Wheeler, Michael, 1960-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : An interview with Jack Cowan. Hubert L. Dreyfus -- Charles Babbage and the emergence of automated reason / Seth Bullock -- D'Arcy Thompson : a grandfather of A-life / Margaret A. Boden -- Alan Turing's mind machines / Donald Michie -- What did Alan Turing mean by "machine"? / Andrew Hodges -- The ratio club : a hub of British cybernetics / Philip Husbands and Owen Holland -- From mechanisms of adaptation to intelligence amplifiers : the philosophy of W. Ross Ashby / Peter M. Asaro -- Gordon Pask and his maverick machines / Jon Bird and Ezequiel Di Paolo -- Santiago dreaming / Andy Beckett -- Steps toward the synthetic method : symbolic information processing and self-organizing systems in early artificial intelligence modeling / Roberto Cordeschi -- The mechanization of art / Paul Brown -- The robot story : why robots were born and how they grew up / Jana Horáková and Jozef Kelemen -- God's machines : Descartes on the mechanization of mind / Michael Wheeler -- Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- An interview with John Maynard Smith -- An interview with John Holland -- An interview with Oliver Selfridge -- An interview with Horace Barlow -- An interview with Jack Cowan.

ISBN:

0262083779
9780262083775

LCCN:

2007035271

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)