Web Resources

• On-line demonstrations:
• GPS (General Problem Solver): (forthcoming)
  
• Eliza:
• Jerz' version, including citations (Java applet): the original Eliza
  
• Version from manifestation.com (Javascript): an enhanced Eliza
• Android designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro (opens in new page; click on “Japanese Android Video”)
  
• Hopfield Neural Network 
  
• Articles:
  
• Transcript of PARRY encounters the DOCTOR (Eliza)
  
• SHRDLU information from Winograd (including transcript of session)
• Hans Moravec on our “mind children”; see also his website.  (Moravec is on the adjunct faculty of the Robotics Insititute of Carnegie-Mellon University.)
• Consciousness in Robots: The Hard Problem and Some Less Hard Problems [pdf], by B. J. MacLennan.  Presented at The 14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Aug. 13–15, 2005.
  
• My slides on real (biological) neurons [pdf (14 MB)]. 
• My slides on artificial neural networks [pdf (3.5 MB)].
  
• My slides on the derivation of the back-propagation algorithm [pdf (1.2 MB)].
  
• My slides on embodiment and situatedness [pdf (1.2 MB)].

• Miscellaneous:
• AI Topics (from AAAI, the American Association for AI), including a Brief History of AI.  Lots of useful background information.
  
• Alan Turing Homepage (a wealth of resources)
  
• The Cyc Project (Wikipedia), and its commercial offshoot, Cycorp, Inc.
• OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology.  This site includes examples of the Cyc knowledgebase. 
• Timeline of Robotics
• Robotic Life project at MIT
• Robonaut project (NASA)
• MacroVu argument map “Can Computers Think?” 
• Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind (useful, brief definitions)
• Free Online Dictionary of Philosophy (ditto) 
• A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names (very similar to the preceding)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (a valuable resource).  Some particular relevant articles:
  • Connectionism
  • Language of Thought
    
• Helpful material from Jim Pryor: 
• How To Read a Philosophy Paper
• Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper
• Philosophy Study Aids from Peter Suber.  Includes advice on reading and writing papers on philosophical topics.
• StarLogo on the Web 
  
• Loglan.org, about the contemporary artificial language Loglan.
  
  
• Draft chapters from my book-in-progress From Pythagoras to the Digital Computer: The Intellectual Roots of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (pdf format):
  
• Title & Preface
• 1. The Archaeology of Computation: Overview
• 2. The Continuous and the Discrete
• 3. Thought as Computation
• 4. The Arithmetization of Geometry
• 5. Theory of Computation
• 6. Limitations of the Discrete
  
• 7. Logical Positivism
• 8. The Computational Theory of Mind (section 8.1 only)
• Bibliography
  

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