Cognitive Carpentry: A Blueprint for How to Build a Person

A sequel to Pollock's How to Build a Person, this volume builds upon that theoretical groundwork for the implementation of rationality through artificial intelligence. Pollock argues that progress in AI has stalled because of its creators' reliance upon unformulated intuitions about rationality. Instead, he bases the OSCAR architecture upon an explicit philosophical theory of rationality, encom…

Paul Lauterbur and the invention of MRI

"On September 2, 1971, the chemist Paul Lauterbur had an idea that would change the practice of medical research. Considering recent research findings about the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals to detect tumors in tissue samples, Lauterbur realized that the information from NMR signals could be recovered in the form of images -- and thus obtained noninvasively from a living subje…

Blowout in the Gulf :the BP oil spill disaster and the future of energy in Am…

Explains both the disaster and the decisions that led up to it and argues that for the future the emphasis needs to be on prevention and that risk-management policies be based on better understandings of humans and hardware.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Nonmonotonic reasoning

Nonmonotonic reasoning provides formal methods that enable intelligent systems to operate adequately when faced with incomplete or changing information. In particular, it provides rigorous mechanisms for taking back conclusions that, in the presence of new information, turn out to be wrong and for deriving new, alternative conclusions instead. Nonmonotonic reasoning methods provide rigor simila…

Committee Decisions on Monetary Policy: Evidence from Historical Records of t…

An examination of how the policy preferences of individual members of the Federal Open Market Committee are translated into monetary policy decisions.In many countries, monetary policy decisions are made by committees. In the United States, these decisions are made by the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which consists of the seven members of the Board of Governors and th…

Against nature

A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enli…

Giving bodies back to data :image-makers, bricolage, and reinvention in magne…

"Giving Bodies Back to Data focuses on the entanglement between the history and practice of data visualization across disciplines and cultures, focusing on the invention of MRI"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The ends game :how smart companies stop selling products and start delivering…

"An innovative rethinking of our current market system where people pay for products. In the future, we will pay for the results a company can deliver. This book explains how we will reach that future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, Volume 5: Northwest Cambridge

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Object recognition in man, monkey, and machine

The contributors bring a wide range of methodologies to bear on the common problem of image-based object recognition. These interconnected essays on three-dimensional visual object recognition present cutting-edge research by some of the most creative neuroscientific, cognitive, and computational scientists in the field. Cassandra Moore and Patrick Cavanagh take a classic demonstration, t…