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Artificial intelligence at MIT :expanding frontiers.
The broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer the nature of the field of artificial intelligence, while those with some background in AI will appreciate the detailed coverage of the work being done at MIT. The results presented are related to the underlying methodology. Each chapter is introduced by a short note outlining the scope of the problem begin taken up …
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- 0262322323
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- 1 online resource (682 pages).
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Artificial intelligence in perspective
"A Bradford book."Reprinted from Artificial intelligence, an international journal, vol. 59, nos. 1-2, 1993.This collection of essays reviews the scope and progress of research in artificial intelligence over the past two decades. Seminal and most-cited papers from the journal "Artificial Intelligence" are revisited by the authors who describe how their research has been developed since publica…
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 0262291061
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- 1 online resource (viii, 462 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche :philosophy, culture, and agency
Are Hegel and Nietzsche philosophical opposites? Can twentieth-century Continental philosophers be categorized as either Hegelians or Nietzscheans? In this book Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity. Jurist examines Hegel's and Nietzsche's claim that philosophy and culture are linked and expl…
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- 0585442681
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- 1 online resource (xii, 355 pages).
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Is human nature obsolete? :genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the hu…
Papers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton.As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. It…
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- 9780262267571
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- 1 online resource (x, 422 pages).
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Learnability and cognition :the acquisition of argument structure
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) :illustrations.
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Knowledge of meaning :an introduction to semantic theory
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- 9780262277945
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 639 pages)
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Layered learning in multiagent systems :a winning approach to robotic soccer
This book looks at multiagent systems that consist of teams of autonomous agents acting in real-time, noisy, collaborative, and adversarial environments. The book makes four main contributions to the fields of machine learning and multiagent systems. First, it describes an architecture within which a flexible team structure allows member agents to decompose a task into flexible roles and to swi…
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- 0585228361
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- 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) :illustrations.
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Intelligent behavior in animals and robots
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- 9780262279468
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- 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) :illustrations.
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Machine musicianship
"Musicians begin formal training by acquiring a body of musical concepts commonly known as musicianship. These concepts underlie the musical skills of listening, performance, and composition. Like humans, computer music programs can benefit from a systematic foundation of musical knowledge. This book explores the technology of implementing musical processes such as segmentation, pattern process…
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- 9780262256896
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- 1 online resource (x, 399 pages) :illustrations
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Machine models of music
"Machine Models of Music brings together representative models ranging from Mozart's "Musical Dice Game" to a classic article by Marvin Minsky and current research to illustrate the rich impact that artificial intelligence has had on the understanding and composition of traditional music and to demonstrate the ways in which music can push the boundaries of traditional Al research. Major section…
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- 9780262290982
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- 1 online resource (ix, 544 pages) :illustrations
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