[Robotgroup] AI talk for students at UT tomorrow

[Acy Stapp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Artificial_intelligence
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/cogarch0/index.html

Books I'm driven to read over and over: All of these have changed the way I
think of intelligence and learning.

Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New
AI<http://www.amazon.com/Cambrian-Intelligence-Early-History-New/dp/0262522632/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3048611-3408133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189862547&sr=1-1>by
Rodney A. Brooks - Layered, distributed architectures; using state
from
the environment instead of building and environmental model

On Intelligence<http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/0805078533/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3048611-3408133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189862575&sr=8-1>by
Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee - A cortically-influenced
connectionist
model using a prediction/correction framework with auto-associative feaures.
I believe Hawkins underestimates the specificity and adaptation of specific
cortical regions (especially those that interface directly with sensory
systems) but he presents a very powerful theory with not quite enough detail
to implement :) You can get the code at numenta.com I believe.

Fluid Concepts and Creative
Analogies<http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Creative-Analogies-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp/0465024750/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3048611-3408133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189862460&sr=8-1>by
Douglas Hofstadter - Very simple grounded models in toy universes;
thinking and creativity by analogy making.

<http://www.amazon.com/Cambrian-Intelligence-Early-History-New/dp/0262522632/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3048611-3408133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189862547&sr=1-1>Knowledge
Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations:
Logical, Philosophical, and Computational
Foundations<http://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Representation-Philosophical-Computational-Foundations/dp/0534949657/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-3048611-3408133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189862612&sr=8-2>by
John F. Sowa - This is a textbook suitable for a (take a guess) Logic,
Philosophy, or AI course. It provides a very interesting base ontology as
well as several good overviews of different aspects of the field.
Expensive..



On 9/14/07, Thelostcircuit <thelostcircuit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Guess I won't be there :)
>
> Ya that would be 1972.81 miles away and 31 hours, 23 minutes drive. I
> guess
> I would not be able to attend. Sounds like a great learning opportunity.
> Is
> there going to be a transcript made? On the other hand, would any one that
> is going to attend be willing to take notes for me?
>
> Are there any good sites or learning recourses for AI on the web? I have
> one
> book currently and have just started the journey or learning about
> artificial intelligence.
>
> Jon
>
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>
> For those of you with middle school or high school children, Dr. Peter
> Stone
> is giving a talk on AI tomorrow. For more information:
> http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/smmg/
> THanks,
> Bob Comer
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-- 
Acy Stapp

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how
to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not
beautiful, I know it is wrong." -- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)