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The Society of Mind Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The Society of Mind By Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Describing the mind as a "society" that arises out of ever-smaller, mindless agents, each chapter corresponds to a single puzzle piece and a unified theory of the mind emerges before the eyes. Illustrated.

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The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Marvin Minsky--one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT--gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "how does the mind work?"

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Issac Asimov Information Week 270 brilliantly original essays on...how the mind works.
The New York Times Book Review INGENIOUS...STIMULATING...crisp, packed with quips, aphorisms and homely illustrations. A pleasure to read...It will make you think. And that's what brains are for.
Michael Crichton author to The Andromeda Strain PROVOCATIVE, DELIGHTFUL, CHALLENGING, a rich, funny and altogether fascinating book.
Martin Gardner The Boston Sunday Globe SPARKLING WITH JOKES and apt quotations...and rich insights.
Gene Roddenberry creator of Star Trek A REMARKABLE BOOK....I am grateful that Marvin Minsky was my tour guide on this journey in the realms of my own consciousness.
San Jose Mercury News SCATTERED WITH GEMS....Liable to be influential far beyond the narrow researches of artificial intelligence.
Douglas Hofstadter author of Goedel, Escher, Bach and Metamagical Themas A stunning collage of staccato images, filled to the brim with witty insights and telling aphorisms.

About Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has led to many advances in artificial intelligence, psychology, physical optics, mathematics, and the theory of computation. He has made major contributions in the domains of computer graphics, knowledge and semantics, machine vision, and machine learning. He has also been involved with technologies for space exploration. Professor Minsky is one of the pioneers of intelligence-based robotics. He designed and built some of the first mechanical hands with tactile sensors, visual scanners, and their software and interfaces. In 1951 he built the first neural-network learning machine. With John McCarthy he founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959. He has written seminal papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, perception, and language. His book The Society of Mind contains hundreds of ideas about the mind, many of which he has further developed in this book.

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CIN0671657135G
9780671657130
0671657135
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A Touchstone book
Used - Good
Paperback
Simon & Schuster
1988-03-01
339
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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