Learning on ScreenArtificial Life: The Tufts Symposium
- Synopsis
- Covers key issues discusses in the Artificial Intelligence and Darwinism Symposium held at Tufts University in March 1995, chaired by Professor Daniel Dennett. Examines how the study of the way in which biological brains and autonomous agents arose in the past may inform our efforts to build artificial brains and autonomous agents in the future. The 26 themes include evolutionary timescales, beauty and anthropomorphism, recombination, Minsky and learning, behaviour and intentionality, man as machine, teleology, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, the future of work. Includes 900 speech items, 33 minutes of video, 96 minutes of audio, 300 bibliographies, glossary and search terms.
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Multimedia; CD-ROM. Dual platform PC Windows/Apple Macintosh
- Year of production
- 1997
- Availability
- Sale; 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)
- Notes
- Downloadable demo from: http://www.oup.co.uk/alife
- Subjects
- Biology
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence; cognition; Darwin, Charles; origins of life
Credits
- Writer
- Daniel Dennett
- Contributor
- Bruce Mazlish; Daniel Dennett; Daniel Gell-Mann; David Haig; Hans Moravec; John Holland; Karl Sims; Kevin Kelly; Marvin Minsky; Oliver Selfridge; Pattie Maes; Rodney Brooks; Seymour Papert; Sherry Turkle
Distribution Formats
- Type
- CD-ROM
Production Company
- Name
Oxford University Press
- Web
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Distributor
- Name
Oxford University Press, Electronic Publishing
- ep.info@oup.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.oup.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01865 267979
- Fax
- 01865 267990
- Address
- Great Clarendon Street
Oxford OX2 6DP
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