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Donald Michie: machine intelligence, biology and more Ashwin Srinivasan (IBM India Research Laboratory)

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Zusammenfassung

Donald Michie was many things; a computing pioneer in machine intelligence, a cryptographer who made key breakthroughs at Bletchley Park, and a geneticist. Tragically, two years ago he died in a car crash. Here, Ashwin Srinivasan presents an engaging collection of lively essays from Michie's writings, on thinking computers, mice, and much more.

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Donald Michie: machine intelligence, biology and more Ashwin Srinivasan (IBM India Research Laboratory)

Donald Michie was an extraordinary character. In a scientific career that spanned nearly 65 years, he was the pioneer in several fields including computing, mouse embryology, transplantation biology, and machine intelligence. Tragically, he died in a car crash in 2007. Here, Ashwin Srinivasan presents a varied collection of Michie's writings, from Colossus and computers to mouse genetics and politics. Srinivasan, a computer scientist and grand-student of Donald Michie, introduces each section and brings together an engaging collection of lively essays, revealing Michie's remarkable personality and painting a picture of his life and interests.

Donald Michie: machine intelligence, biology and more Bewertungen

The book is certainly a valuable resource for the histories of Colossus. * Ernest Davis, Times Literary Supplement *

Über Ashwin Srinivasan (IBM India Research Laboratory)

Ashwin Srinivasan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1991. In 1991 he joined the Turing Institute, Scotland. From 1993, he was a member of the Oxford University's Computing Laboratory, where he was involved in pioneering applications of logic-based machine learning to difficult real-world problems in biology and chemistry. In 2003, he moved to the IBM India Research Laboratory in New Delhi as a Research Staff Member. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, and is regularly invited to present work on machine-assisted methods for scientific knowledge discovery.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword ; Editor's Note ; A Lifetime in a Minute ; Acknowledgements ; MACHINES AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE ; The Beginning ; Colossus and the Breaking of the Wartime "Fish" codes ; Turing's Vision ; EARLY PROMISE ; Machines That Can Play Games ; Where Britain Lags Behind ; Edinburgh Will Set the Pace ; Amplifying Intelligence by Machine ; Clever or Intelligent? ; LIGHTHILL AND AFTER ; Machine Intelligence in the Cycle Shed ; Response to Lighthill ; Computer Chess an the Humanization of Technology ; Slaughter on 7th Avenue ; Human Window on the World ; The Turing Institute ; Rules from Brains ; CONSCIOUSNESS, TURING'S TEST AND THE CHILD MACHINE ; Turing's Test and Conscious Thought ; "Strong AI": An Adolescent Disorder ; It Takes Two to Tango ; Return of the Imitation Game ; BIOLOGY ; Maternal Inheritance in Mice ; Superpregnancy in Mice ; Studies on the Transfer of Fertilized Mouse Eggs ; Transplantation Biology ; Embryo Selection for Human IVF ; Thinking about Thinking ; IN CONVERSATION ; 50 Years after Breaking the Codes ; Secrets of Colossus Revealed ; Recollections of Early AI in Britain ; Tokyo-Edinburgh Dialogue ; "FROM OUR SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT" ; On Keeping Mice ; The last liger ; Archbishop Among the Test-Tubes ; There's no such thing as a "Superior" Race ; Nature v. nurture ; Song and Dance story ; Scientific Advice to Governments ; Keeping one jump ahead ; What they Read and Why ; Sciencemanship ; PEACE AND GOODWILL ; The Tramp's Charter ; Descent into Unreason ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; Selected Publications in Biology ; Selected Publications in Computer Science ; Books ; Web Links

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GOR006432117
9780199573042
0199573042
Donald Michie: machine intelligence, biology and more Ashwin Srinivasan (IBM India Research Laboratory)
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Oxford University Press
2009-11-12
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