Mind matters

exploring the world of artificial intelligence

By Hogan, James P.

Publishers Summary:
"From the pioneering experiments in "cybernetics" of the 1940s to the digital computers and robot prototypes developed by Carnegie Mellon University and MIT researchers to Deep Blue, and on to the most current projects involving humanoid robots and attempts to duplicate the evolution of intelligence, Mind Matters chronicles the extraordinary journey toward a scientific breakthrough that could well overshadow man's conquest of space." "Whether such a breakthrough is even possible, and what the implications - social, economic, political - for humankind will be if it is, makes Mind Matters the scientifically and philosophically provocative read of the year."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN
978-0-34541-240-9
Publisher
New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Pub., 1998, c1997.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on February 1, 1998

Joining a legion of volumes on artificial intelligence (AI), this sweeping, readable work by a British engineer and sales consultant for DEC, the computer maker, explores the remarkable, though often enigmatic, world of AI. Beginning with what he calls Aristotle's legacy, Hogan proceeds with a long, thoughtful survey of a vast, sometimes dry field, covering theories of knowledge, reasoning methods and modes, number theory and other...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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