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Artificial intelligence :the very idea
"A Bradford book.""Machines who think--how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists, defending their dwindling turf. "Artificial Intelligence--it's here and about to surpass our own," crow techno-visionaries, proclaiming dominion. It's so simple and obvious, each side maintains, only a fanatic could disagree.Deciding where the truth lies between these two extremes is the main purpose o…
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- 9780262291149
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- 1 online resource (287 pages) :illustrations
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AI in the 1980s and beyond :an MIT survey
Based on a conference held Jan. 21-23, 1986 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Laboratory for Computer Science, and the Seminar Office of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study, all at MIT.AI in the 1980s and Beyond provides an inside report on current applications, trends, and future opportunities in one of the world's majo…
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- 0262256266
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- 1 online resource (374 pages) :illustrations.
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The age of electronic messages
What are the frontiers of today's communications technology? The Age of Electronic Messages explains the scientific principles on which this technology is based and explores its capabilities and limitations, its risks and benefits. In straightforward language accompanied by numerous illustrations, Truxal describes the communications technology that has become such an integral part of today's wo…
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- 0262257092
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 487 pages) :illustrations.
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Advances in the evolutionary synthesis of intelligent agents
"A Bradford book.""This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning." "The book is organized around four topics: the power of evolution to determine effective solutions to complex tasks, mechanisms to make evolutionary d…
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- 0585387168
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 480 pages) :illustrations
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Advanced mean field methods :theory and practice
"Bringing together ideas and techniques from diverse disciplines, this book covers the theoretical foundations of advanced mean field methods, explores the relation between the different approaches, examines the quality of the approximation obtained, and demonstrates their application to various areas of probabilistic modeling."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585417725
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) :illustrations.
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Adaptive dynamics :the theoretical analysis of behavior
In this book J.E.R. Staddon proposes an explanation of behavior that lies between cognitive psychology, which seeks to explain it in terms of mentalistic constructs, and cognitive neuroscience, which tries to explain it in terms of the brain. Staddon suggests a new way to understand the laws and causes of learning, based on the invention, comparison, testing, and modification or rejection of pa…
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- 9780262284189
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 423 pages) :illustrations
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Adaptation in natural and artificial systems :an introductory analysis with a…
"A Bradford book."DSU Title III 2007-2012.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 0585038449
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages) :illustrations.
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Ada, a life and a legacy
The subject of this biography "was the daughter of Lord Byron ... based on her report on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, she is also generally regarded as the inventor of the science of computer programming"--Page 4 of cover.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262257039
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- 1 online resource (xix, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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The act of thinking
"A Bradford book."A new theory proposes that thinking is a learned action.In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science--that thinking goes on in the head--is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person.After an introduct…
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- 9780262279659
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
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The acquisition of syntactic knowledge
"This landmark work in computational linguistics is of great importance both theoretically and practically because it shows that much of English grammar can be learned by a simple program. The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge investigates the central questions of human and machine cognition: How do people learn language? How can we get a machine to learn language? It first presents an explici…
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- 0585368910
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- 1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) :illustrations.
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