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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Douglas R Hofstadter
First published in 1979, this is a genuine interdisciplinary work of nonfiction, with dozens of historical references and subtexts. Critics and reviewers have summed up its meaning in varying ways, yet consistently with praise. A mixture of art, philosophy, music, math, technology, and cognitive science, the book's title only reflects one aspect ...
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Learning to Program with Alice
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Wanda Dann
Appropriate for all one-semester pre-CS1 and computer literacy courses, and for integration into the first weeks of many introductory CS1 courses. Alice was designed to make programming concepts easier to teach and learn. In the Second Edition of Learning to Program with Alice, Alice's creators offer a complete full-color introduction to the ...
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On Intelligence
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Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines. Written with acclaimed science writer Blakeslee, this text promises to transfigure the possibilities of the technology age.
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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
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Roger Penrose, Martin Gardner (Foreword by)
The proponents of artificial intelligence want to prove that it is only a matter of time before computers will be doing everything that a human mind can do. They take it for granted that pleasure and pain, the appreciation of beauty and humour, consciousness and free will are capacities that a computer will display once the appropriate programs of ...
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Age of Spiritual Machines
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Ray Kurzweil, PhD
The "ultimate thinking machine" ("Forbes")--whose predictions for the future are startling, provocative, and closer to fruition than one might think--takes a serious and surprising look at the future that reads like great science fiction and offers a framework for envisioning the 21st century. Illustrations & diagrams. (Technology)
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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Stuart J Russell, Peter Norvig, Sturat J Russell
For one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence. The long-anticipated revision of this best-selling text offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. Click on "Features" tab below for more information Resources: Visit the author's website ...
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Emergence: From Chaos to Order
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John H Holland
This new book, by acclaimed scientist- John Holland, introduces the reader to the exciting new theory of 'emergence', which many people now consider to be the single most characteristic feature of complex, adaptive systems. By 'emergence' it is meant that such systems tend to involve large numbers of intelligent, adaptive agents, interacting on ...
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Demon seed
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Dean R Koontz
A naive young woman develops an intimate relationship with a diabolical, artificially-intelligent computer.
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Shadows of the Mind
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Roger Penrose
The motivation for this book arose, in part, from a need for detailed replies to a number of queries and criticisms from readers of the author's previous book, The Emperor's New Mind , many of whom have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid the conclusion that there must be something non-computational involved in thinking. Penrose searches for a ...
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
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Trevor Hastie, Jerome Friedman, Robert Tibshirani
During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as ...
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You've Got Murder
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Donna Andrews
A sentient artificial intelligence personality (AIP) investigates the disappearance of the techie who created her.
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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
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Christopher M Bishop
The dramatic growth in practical applications for machine learning over the last ten years has been accompanied by many important developments in the underlying algorithms and techniques. For example, Bayesian methods have grown from a specialist niche to become mainstream, while graphical models have emerged as a general framework for describing ...
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Click Here for Murder
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Donna Andrews
Turing Hopper is an Artificial Intelligence Personality--a computerized detective who can process amazing amounts of complex information in mere seconds. When her human coworker Ray Santiago is murdered, the digital sleuth finds that her own computerized components might be in grave danger. Can Turing suss out Ray's killer before her own existence ...
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Earthborn
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Orson Scott Card
In the fifth and concluding volume of the Homecoming series, the space ship finally reaches Earth, and finding that the decimated planet has been rebuilt by those that remained, the descendants of Nafai set about looking for the facilities to repair the Oversoul, the reason for the generation long mission in the first place.
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Galatea 2.2
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Richard Powers
The fictional protagonist, Richard Powers, becomes involved with Philip Lentz and his scheme to train a neural net on a canonical list of great books until the machine is capable of passing an English literature exam. As the device grows, Powers is forced to reconsider his literary vocation.
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Artificial intelligence structures and strategies for complex problem solving
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Luger
Artificial intelligence (AI) began as the quest to create machines that could think for themselves and (perhaps) out-think humans: the holy grail of computing! Over the years, while still exploring the mechanisms that enable thought, AI has evolved into a more pragmatic discipline. AI uses different strategies to solve the complex practical ...
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Bolo!
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David Weber
Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed to admit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos were almost indestructible, and nearly unstoppable. Their artificial intelligences were designed to make them selflessly serve and protect humans through-out the galaxy and made each Bolo the epitome of ...
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Machine Learning
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Tom M Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell, Mitchell Thomas
This book covers the field of machine learning, which is the study of algorithms that allow computer programs to automatically improve through experience. The book is intended to support upper level undergraduate and introductory level graduate courses in machine learning.
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
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Terry Winograd
This volume is a theoretical and practical approach to the design of computer technology.
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The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Edition
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Herbert Alexander Simon
Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the themes and tools - chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms - for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. ...
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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Ray Kurzweil
An eye-opening forecast on the subject of computers and how they will exceed the memory capacity of the human brain by the year 2020.
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Artificial Intelligence
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Patrick Henry Winston
This is the all-time bestselling introduction to artificial intelligence. The third edition retains the best features of the earlier works, including superior readability, currency, and excellence in the selection of examples. Winston emphasizes how artificial intelligence can be viewed from an engineering or a scientific point of view. The new ...
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Statistical Mechanics of Learning
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A Engel, C Van Den Broeck
Learning is one of the things that humans do naturally, and it has always been a challenge for us to understand the process. Nowadays this challenge has another dimension as we try to build machines that are able to learn and to undertake tasks such as datamining, image processing and pattern recognition. We can formulate a simple framework, ...
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Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines
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David Hagberg, John Brancato (Screenwriter), Michael Ferris (Screenwriter)
As John Connor struggles with fears about his destiny as the head of the human resistance against the robotic forces of Skynet, a new advanced-model Terminator from the future is sent to kill him.
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Artificial Intelligence: Modern Approach
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Stuart J Russell, Peter Norvig
This is an introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. It uses an intelligent agent as the unifying theme throughout, and covers areas that are sometimes underemphasized elsewhere. These include reasoning under uncertainty, learning, natural language, vision and robotics. The book also explains in detail some of the more ...
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